Registration now open: Making human heredity: populations and publichealth in the postwar era
Invitation
to register for the workshop: 'Making human heredity: populations and public
health in the postwar era', at the Department of History and Philosophy of
Science, University of Cambridge, 28th-30th June 2012.
The postwar study of human heredity was shaped by an array of fields engaged with the study of human populations, including cytogenetics, physical anthropology, epidemiology, public health and demography. This workshop will address the continuities in population thinking across these fields, and the shared practices, institutional structures and analytical and organisational technologies that constituted postwar human heredity.
The workshop aims to bring into view how human populations were shaped through sampling protocols and technologies of data organization. It will emphasize the roles of international organizations, such as the World Health Organization, in promoting and coordinating collection practices across different disciplines and countries. It will also recover the ways in which data and samples were negotiated by researchers with different interests, and re-appropriated in disciplinarily diverse research programmes.
The draft programme is pasted below, and there will be pre-circulated papers. Those wishing to register for the event (places are limited; deadline: 14 June), please email Michelle Wallis (mlw41@cam.ac.uk); price £25 (which includes lunch on the 28th and 29th of June, coffee and tea during breaks).
For any queries about the conference please email Michelle Wallis (mlw41@cam.ac.uk) or Jenny Bangham (jb252@cam.ac.uk).
The workshop is supported by the Wellcome Trust, the Genetics Society and by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award in the History of Medicine on the theme 'Generation to Reproduction' (awarded to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and colleagues in Classics, Geography, History, King's and Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).
Convened by Jenny Bangham (University of Cambridge) and Soraya de Chadarevian (University of California, Los Angeles).
DRAFT PROGRAMME:
Thursday 28th June
The genetics of human populations
14:00 Veronika Lipphardt (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin): Studies of human variation after 1945: genetics, anthropology and public health.
14:45 Lisa Gannett (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax): ‘Population’, ‘ethnicity’, and ‘race’ in genetics.
15:30 Coffee & Tea
Genetics, Populations, Public Health
16:00 Soraya de Chadarevian (University of California, Los Angeles): Chromosome surveys of human populations: between epidemiology and anthropology
16:45 Edna Suarez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): Indigenous populations in Mexico: medical genetics and cultural anthropology in the work of Ruben Lisker in the 1960s.
17:30 Susanne Bauer (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): Mutations in Soviet public health: post-Lysenko medical genetics and epidemiology, 1969-1991
18.15: Discussion
19:00 Dinner
Friday 29th June
Sampling and collecting
09:30 Jenny Bangham (University of Cambridge): Sampling practices and institutional networks in postwar blood-group anthropology in Britain, 1946-56. +prewar and larger story about continuities pre and postwar
10:15 Joanna Radin (University of Pennsylvania): Standardizing variation: World Health Organization working groups and human tissue collection, 1958-1970
11:00 Coffee & Tea
11:30 Alexandra Widmer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin): Of indigenous knowledge and Melanesian blood: Carleton Gadjusek's research practices on blood and genetic diversity in the Western Pacific Islands (1960s-1970s)
Heredity and demography
12:15 Edmund Ramsden (University of Exeter): Postwar British Demography: Survey technologies of the UK Population Investigation Committee
13:00 Lunch
Heredity in the clinic
15:00 María Jesús Santesmases (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC, Madrid): Prenatal testing and the autonomous karyotype: Children, pregnant women, and early Down syndrome cytogenetics, 1962-1975
15:45 Ilana Löwy (Centre de Recherche Medicine, Science Santé et Societé, Paris): How genetics came to the unborn: 1960-1990
16:30 Coffee & Tea
17:00 Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania): Respondent
Discussion
19:30 Dinner + further discussion
Saturday 30th June
9:30—12:00 General discussion re: Studies Special Issue (speakers only)
12:00 Lunch
The postwar study of human heredity was shaped by an array of fields engaged with the study of human populations, including cytogenetics, physical anthropology, epidemiology, public health and demography. This workshop will address the continuities in population thinking across these fields, and the shared practices, institutional structures and analytical and organisational technologies that constituted postwar human heredity.
The workshop aims to bring into view how human populations were shaped through sampling protocols and technologies of data organization. It will emphasize the roles of international organizations, such as the World Health Organization, in promoting and coordinating collection practices across different disciplines and countries. It will also recover the ways in which data and samples were negotiated by researchers with different interests, and re-appropriated in disciplinarily diverse research programmes.
The draft programme is pasted below, and there will be pre-circulated papers. Those wishing to register for the event (places are limited; deadline: 14 June), please email Michelle Wallis (mlw41@cam.ac.uk); price £25 (which includes lunch on the 28th and 29th of June, coffee and tea during breaks).
For any queries about the conference please email Michelle Wallis (mlw41@cam.ac.uk) or Jenny Bangham (jb252@cam.ac.uk).
The workshop is supported by the Wellcome Trust, the Genetics Society and by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award in the History of Medicine on the theme 'Generation to Reproduction' (awarded to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and colleagues in Classics, Geography, History, King's and Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).
Convened by Jenny Bangham (University of Cambridge) and Soraya de Chadarevian (University of California, Los Angeles).
DRAFT PROGRAMME:
Thursday 28th June
The genetics of human populations
14:00 Veronika Lipphardt (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin): Studies of human variation after 1945: genetics, anthropology and public health.
14:45 Lisa Gannett (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax): ‘Population’, ‘ethnicity’, and ‘race’ in genetics.
15:30 Coffee & Tea
Genetics, Populations, Public Health
16:00 Soraya de Chadarevian (University of California, Los Angeles): Chromosome surveys of human populations: between epidemiology and anthropology
16:45 Edna Suarez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): Indigenous populations in Mexico: medical genetics and cultural anthropology in the work of Ruben Lisker in the 1960s.
17:30 Susanne Bauer (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): Mutations in Soviet public health: post-Lysenko medical genetics and epidemiology, 1969-1991
18.15: Discussion
19:00 Dinner
Friday 29th June
Sampling and collecting
09:30 Jenny Bangham (University of Cambridge): Sampling practices and institutional networks in postwar blood-group anthropology in Britain, 1946-56. +prewar and larger story about continuities pre and postwar
10:15 Joanna Radin (University of Pennsylvania): Standardizing variation: World Health Organization working groups and human tissue collection, 1958-1970
11:00 Coffee & Tea
11:30 Alexandra Widmer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin): Of indigenous knowledge and Melanesian blood: Carleton Gadjusek's research practices on blood and genetic diversity in the Western Pacific Islands (1960s-1970s)
Heredity and demography
12:15 Edmund Ramsden (University of Exeter): Postwar British Demography: Survey technologies of the UK Population Investigation Committee
13:00 Lunch
Heredity in the clinic
15:00 María Jesús Santesmases (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC, Madrid): Prenatal testing and the autonomous karyotype: Children, pregnant women, and early Down syndrome cytogenetics, 1962-1975
15:45 Ilana Löwy (Centre de Recherche Medicine, Science Santé et Societé, Paris): How genetics came to the unborn: 1960-1990
16:30 Coffee & Tea
17:00 Susan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania): Respondent
Discussion
19:30 Dinner + further discussion
Saturday 30th June
9:30—12:00 General discussion re: Studies Special Issue (speakers only)
12:00 Lunch