Speaker Series: Race, Health, and Science

Speaker: Nicolae Morar, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy and Associate Member of the Institute for Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon

Title: “Recording Injustices Genetically? The Case of the Human Microbiome”

Time: 12:00 to 1:30pm on Wednesday, April 28

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute Science Studies Research Workshop; UB Departments of Sociology, Philosophy, Environment and Sustainability, and the Genome, Environment and Microbiome Community of Excellence Microbiome Center.

Description: This is the century of the gene, as Evelyn Fox Keller has noted (2002). So, it comes with no surprise that gene editing has occupied the news and has sparked some of the most significant bioethical debates of our time. Among the most significant of ethical concerns are the social impacts of widely-adopted genetic technologies. In this presentation, “Recording Injustices Genetically? The Case of the  Human Microbiome”, I intend to highlight how experiences of marginalization truly ‘edit’ parts of our biology and how social conditions literally ‘get under our skin’.

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