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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><b>Please join us this afternoon
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<div align="center"><font size=4>STS Special Lecture<br><br>
</font><font size=5 color="#0000FF">The Affliction of Freedom:<br>
Shame, Science, and Liberal Governance<br><br>
</font><font size=5>Rebecca Herzig<br>
</font><font size=4>Bates College<br><br>
</font><font size=5>4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095<br><br>
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Abstract:<br>
</b>Recent scholarship in STS has focused on the dilemmas of bodily
ownership emerging through current developments in the life sciences.
This talk highlights previously overlooked features of the governance of
life, labor, and property in advanced liberal societies, by tracing the
history of a single "human biological" in the United
States: body hair. Consternation over the nature and purpose
of human hairiness, expressed in scientific treatises, advice manuals,
and private letters, intimates some of the more vexing contradictions of
choice in modern America--contradictions at the center of contemporary
vital politics.</blockquote></body>
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