[Sci-tech-public] today! - 1pm - brown bag lunch w joe dumit

[Anne Pollock]

Brown Bag Lunch
with Joseph Dumit

Drugs for Life:
Managing Health and Identity
Through Facts and Pharmaceuticals

Wednesday April 6, 2005
1:00-3:00, MIT, E51-275

Joseph Dumit is a Professor in the Program of Science, Technology and
Society. His first book, Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and
Biomedical Identity (2004) is a rich contemporary history of the
scientific construction of PET scans and how their images travel. He
is currently finishing a new book, Drugs for Life: Managing Health
and Identity through Facts and Pharmaceuticals  which explores the
role of pharmaceuticals in a shift in how we understand the body,
from inherently healthy to inherently disesased.