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<div><font size="+1"><b>Joanna Radin<br></b></font></div>
<div><i>University of Pennsylvania <br></i></div>
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<div><font size="+1"><b>Frozen Human Tissue and the Problem of Interdeterminacy<br></b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Monday, October 24<br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">12:15-2:00 p.m.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room
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<div><b>Abstract:</b> The International Biological Program (IBP,1964-1974) was a
large-scale effort to take stock of the biosphere. Working within the
ecological framework of the IBP and, with new access to industrial
technologies of cold storage, certain human biologists endeavored to
collect and freeze tissue from populations depicted as close to nature
and endangered. In this talk I examine three episodes in the trajectory
of these preserved bodily extracts -- the circumstances of their
collection in the field, decades-long suspended animation in laboratory
freezers, and contemporary re-animation. I track the shifting
socio-technical practices applied to making cold blood into an enduring
reservoir for knowledge production and the ethical problems posed by the
indeterminate nature of this resource.<br></div>
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<div><b>Biography</b>: Joanna Radin is a doctoral candidate in History and Sociology of
Science at the University of Pennsylvania where she is completing a
dissertation titled "Life on Ice: Frozen Blood and Biological Variation
in a Genomic Age, 1950-2010." Fundamentally, this work is about the
relationship between changes in biomedical infrastructure and changes in
concepts of what it has meant to be human. It is relevant to the
challenges posed by efforts to use stored tissues for purposes of
personalized (and often commercialized) genomics, epidemiology, and
reproductive science and medicine. She has also published on the history
of the FDA, nanotechnology and held fellowships at the Philadelphia
Area Center for the History of Science and the Max Planck Institute for
the History of Science.</div>
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