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Veronika Lipphardt, Alexandra Widmer and Susanne Bauer (MPIWG): From Field Surveys to Biobanks. A History of Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity
Throughout the 20th century, human biological diversity has been a challenging research topic for life scientists. Its political implications constantly undermined the ideal of scientific objectivity, while at the same time the social situatedness of empirical research on human test objects made it difficult to approach human variation with the same analytical tools like variation in other mammals. Parallel and interwoven with its being an epistemic object for the life sciences, human biological diversity also served as an instrumental object in medical research, in genealogy and other fields of application. In our paper we take a broader perspective on this issue than the conventional historiography of race science allows for: Investigations of human biological diversity are contextualized in transnational, (post-)colonial, and social constellations and within discourses on health, reproduction and population.
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
05/05/2010 15:00 - 05/05/2010 16:30
Event venue:
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Art / design, Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Social studies
Types of events:
Entry:
12/30/2009
Sender/author:
Dr. Hansjakob Ziemer
Department:
Kooperationen und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event29803
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