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<a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">sts</font></a><a href="mailto:sts@hks.harvard.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">@hks.harvard.edu</font></a><font color="#000000"> by 5pm Thursday, September 13.</font></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px; font-family:'Times New Roman'"><b>Abstract:</b> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><i><span lang="EN-US">Sexual health</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> is one of the great buzzwords
of the early twenty-first century. The recent, exponential growth of discourses, practices, techniques, and industries that reference or profess the goal of sexual health marks a new moment in the history of engagement by health institutions with the domain
of sexuality. At the same time, the convergence around the specific term masks a remarkable diversity of scientific, political, economic, and practical agendas which sometimes coexist and at other times directly compete. I seek to understand the contexts in
which the term has arisen, the consequences of attempts to lay claim to it, the kinds of bodies and embodied subjectivity that are linked to its uses, and its implications for what we imagine sexuality to be.</span></font></div>
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<div><b style="font-size:16px; font-family:'Times New Roman'">Biography</b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" style="font-size:16px; font-family:Tahoma">: </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-US"><i>Steven
Epstein</i></span><span lang="EN-US"> is Professor of Sociology and John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, where he has also directed the Science in Human Culture Program, and where he is a co-convener of the Sexualities Project
at Northwestern. Epstein studies the “politics of knowledge”—more specifically, the contested production of expert and especially biomedical knowledge, with an emphasis on the interplay of social movements, experts, and health institutions, and with a focus
on the politics of sexuality, gender, and race. His books include <em>Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge</em> (1996),
<em>Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research</em> (2007), and the coedited volume
<em>Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine’s Simple Solutions</em> (2010). He has also published in such journals as
<em>Social Studies of Science</em>, <em>Sociological Theory</em>, <em>Body and Society</em>, and
<em>Sexualities</em>. He is spending the 2012-13 academic year at Harvard with support from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.</span></font></div>
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