| Start Date: | 10/31/2012 | Start Time: | 3:30 PM |
| End Date: | 10/31/2012 | End Time: | 5:00 PM |
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Event Description
Title: College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Seminar: Classifying Bodies, Classifying Illness: Tracing the Creation of Autoimmune Disease
Speaker: Dr. Kelly Joyce, professor, history and politics; director, Science, Technology and Society program
Autoimmune disease has become a salient way of categorizing a range of diseases in the United States. Over 80 illnesses are now considered autoimmune or autoimmune related. The category affects how people experience their bodies and relationships, while scientific research, medical publications, and popular books use the term to describe seemingly disparate illnesses such as Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, and Crohn’s disease. But, where did the categories autoimmune and autoimmunity come from? How did they come to shape our bodies, medical practice, and popular culture?
Dr. Joyce will investigate the actors and social contexts that inform both the creation of the category autoimmune and its use to classify disease and bodies. This talk will show how the prevalence of this category is the result of decades of effort, collaboration, and negotiation. Scientists, advocacy organizations, popular science writers, pharmaceutical companies, and journalists all contributed to the rise of this way of categorizing bodies and lives.
This event is free and open to the Drexel community. Light refreshments will be served. |
Contact Information:
Name: Diane Ketler
Phone: 215-895-5976
Email: dk882@drexel.edu |
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Audience:
AlumniCurrent StudentsFacultyParents & FamiliesProspective StudentsPublicStaff |
Special Features:
Free Food |
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