Talk by Joseph Dumit, UC Davis. Comment: Robert Proctor. Professor Dumit is the Director of Science and Technology Studies at UC Davis and Associate Professor of Anthropology there. He is the author of "Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity" (Princeton 2004) and a co-editor of "Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots" (Routledge 1998), and "Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies" (SAR Press, 1997). He recently co-edited a special issue of Social Science and Medicine on "Patient Organized Movements," and he is Associate Editor of the journal Culture, Medicine and Society. Professor Dumit holds a Ph.D. from UCSC's History of Consciousness Program (1995).
This presentation is part of the new series "Stanford Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society," which convenes at noon each Friday of spring quarter.