Kate Brown
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Title: “Controversy over Chernobyl Health Consequences:A case of slow...

Venki Ramakrishnan
Senior Scientist, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (UK)
President of the Royal Society (UK)
2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Title: "The Quest for the Structure of the Biological Machine that Reads Our Genes"

... Read more about Harvard Science Book Talk: Venki Ramakrishnan

... Read more about Human Tissue Ethics in Anatomy, Past and Present: From Bodies to Tissues to Data

Ahmed Ragab, HDS Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion, discusses his recent publication,
Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam.

Mark Jordan (HDS), Charles Stang (HDS), and Nancy Khalek...

... Read more about Science and Difference in History: Biology, Genetics, and the Politics of Race

Soyoung Suh
Dartmouth College
 

Marta Hanson
Department of the History of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
 

Suman Seth
Science & Technology Studies,
Cornell University

Title: Difference and Disease: Seasoning Sickness and the Imaginative Geography of the British Empire.

Marcy Norton
Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

“Cacao and the Quetzal: Reflections on...

Marcos Cueto
Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
Rio de Janeiro...

Warwick Anderson,
Department of History,
University of Sydney

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Paul Ramirez,
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University

"Rumors, Speech Acts, and Medical Facts: An Oral History of Mexico's First Vaccination Campaigns"... Read more about History of Science Seminar: Paul Ramirez

Paul Kramer,
Department of History, Vanderbilt University

"Sex, Disease and Military Empire: The Case of the Philippine-American...

Dwai Banerjee,
Assistant Professor,
Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT

“Molecular Markets: The BioLogics of Cancer in the Global South”... Read more about History of Science Seminar: Dwai Banerjee

How have people thought about mental illness in different cultures, and are there positive aspects associated with it, thinking historically and scientifically? Should we think of mental illness as categorically different or as deviations from the normal healthy state? What measures other than pharmaceutical medicines can be helpful for maintaining positive mental health? Join us as we take a deep dive into the biological, historical and psychological aspects of mental illness.

A panel featuring: Prof. Anne Harrington (History of Science),
Prof....