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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and DemocracyEugenics Redux: A Gilded Age Ideology Brought Back for the Second Gilded AgeAir Date 5/27/2025 Slippery slope arguments persist because good ideas taken to extremes become bad ones. Eugenics exemplifies this—often starting with good intentions. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Full Show Notes BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Join our Discord community! KEY POINTS KP 1: The movement that inspired the Holocaust - Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira - TED-Ed - Air Date 3-10-22 KP 2: MAHA's So...2025-05-273h 25
Then & NowWhy History Matters: Reproductive Rights and JusticeIn this week’s episode of then & now, we present a recording of a recent event hosted by the UCLA History Department, "Why History Matters: Reproductive Rights and Justice." This event brought together experts to explore the far-reaching effects of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June 2022. Hosted by Kevin Terraciano, the conversation delves into the historical misuse of legal doctrines to limit reproductive freedoms and calls for a comprehensive reproductive justice framework that extends beyond abortion to include the right to have or not have children and to raise children in safe environments. Professor Cary...2024-11-131h 20
Long Story Short - Der Buch-Podcast mit Karla Paul und Günter Keil5 Jahre Long Story Short! 🎂🥳🤩Die Jubiläumsfolge! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Der Literaturpodcast mit Karla und Günter feiert seinen fünften Geburtstag. In dieser Jubiläumsfolge blicken die beiden auf über 100 Folgen und mindestens 700 Titel zurück. Wie viele Bücher sind Karla und Günter im Kopf und im Herzen geblieben? Was hat sich in den letzten fünf Jahren verändert? Wie kommt eigentlich die Auswahl der Bücher zustande? Karla und Günter geben einen spannenden Einblick in ihren Berufsalltag, der aus Lesen, Recherchieren, Schreiben und Moderieren besteht. Ihr erfahrt, was die beiden mit den vielen Rezensionsexempl...2024-05-0756 min
Beyond ShakespeareThe Tragedy of Iphigenia by Lady Lumley (Full Cast Audio Adaptation)Welcome to our full cast audio adaptation of Iphigenia - recorded as a test live stream for our patrons in April, this is the mixed down version. Many thanks to everyone who helped get this show on the road, and to our wonderful patrons who voted for it.
The Tragedy of Iphigenia by Jane, Lady Lumley, as translated from the play by Euripides
The Chorus / Lady Lumley was played by Sarah Blake, Agamemnon by Aliki Chapple, Senex by Liza Graham, Menelaus by Valentina Vinci, Clytemnestra by Alexandra Kataigida, Iphigenia by Minna Pang, Achilles by Emma Kemp...2023-11-231h 09
Beyond ShakespeareSpoilers: The Tragedy of Iphigenia by Lady LumleyIt's a brand new !Spoilers! episode for The Tragedy of Iphigenia as translated from Euripides by Jane, Lady Lumley around 1553. This episode works through the action, but there isn't the plain text audio at the end - largely because we don't plan to cut the final version. As ever, the text as recorded may contain minor errors and is a bit rough round the edges.
In The Tragedy of Iphigenia by Jane, Lady Lumley, as translated from the play by Euripides
The chorus was played by Sarah Blake, Agamemnon by Aliki Chapple, Senex by Liza Graham, Menelaus by...2023-11-171h 28
DiscoveryBad Blood: Birth controlledWho should be prevented from having children? And who gets to decide? Across 20th century America, there was a battle to control birth - a battle which rages on to this day.In 1907, the state of Indiana passed the first sterilisation law in the world. Government-run institutions were granted the power to sterilise those deemed degenerate - often against their will.In the same period, women are becoming more educated, empowered and sexually liberated. In the Roaring Twenties, the flappers start dancing the Charleston and women win the right to vote.But contraception...2023-01-3027 min
American Dreams: Reproductive JusticeNazis, Eugenicists and the History of Controlling "Deviance"The U.S. has a dark history of "Master Race" thinking - which the Nazis studied and learned from. In this episode, we look at eugenics, forced sterilization and supremacy.In 1961, 44-year-old Fannie Lou Hamer went to Sunflower County Hospital in Mississippi to have a minor tumor removed. Instead, the doctor gave her a "Mississippi Appendectomy." In other words, they sterilized her. Without her knowledge or consent. A year later, Hamer attended her first Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee meeting, launching her civil and voting rights activist career. She has said her forced sterilization was the catalyst...2023-01-2227 min
American Dreams PodcastNazis, Eugenicists and the History of Controlling "Deviance"In 1961, 44-year-old Fannie Lou Hamer went to Sunflower County Hospital in Mississippi to have a minor tumor removed. Instead, the doctor gave her a "Mississippi Appendectomy." In other words, they sterilized her. Without her knowledge or consent. A year later, Hamer attended her first Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee meeting, launching her civil and voting rights activist career. She has said her forced sterilization was the catalyst for her activism.Hamer wasn't the only Black or Brown woman who faced forced sterilization in early and mid-20th century America. It was actually quite common, and purposefully put forward...2023-01-2227 min
Seriously...Bad Blood - 3. Birth ControlledWho should be prevented from having children? And who gets to decide? Across 20th century America, there was a battle to control birth - a battle which rages on to this day. In 1907, the state of Indiana passed the first sterilisation law in the world. Government-run institutions were granted the power to sterilise those deemed degenerate - often against their will. In the same period, women are becoming more educated, empowered and sexually liberated. In the Roaring Twenties, the flappers start dancing the Charleston and women win the right to vote. But contraception is still...2022-12-2329 min
New Books in the History of ScienceEugenicsKim talks with Mercedes Trigos about eugenics.Mercedes references Francis Galton, who coined the term, preimplantation genetic profiling, and the failures of our ordinary progress narratives.If you are interested in reading more about the subject check out:-Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, University of California Press, 2015-Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, Harvard UP, 1998-Nancy Leys Stepan, “The Hour of Eugenics” Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America, Cornell UP, 1991Kim and...2022-05-0913 min
High TheoryEugenicsKim talks with Mercedes Trigos about eugenics.Mercedes references Francis Galton, who coined the term, preimplantation genetic profiling, and the failures of our ordinary progress narratives.If you are interested in reading more about the subject check out:-Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, University of California Press, 2015-Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, Harvard UP, 1998-Nancy Leys Stepan, “The Hour of Eugenics” Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America, Cornell UP, 1991Kim and...2022-05-0913 min
John Jr's Anchor PodcastThe Movement That Inspired The Holocaust – Alexandra Minna Stern And Natalie LiraThis episode is also available as a blog post: https://johnjronline.wordpress.com/2022/03/10/the-movement-that-inspired-the-holocaust-alexandra-minna-stern-and-natalie-lira/
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Vaesen: Im Königreich Bayern by zeitigerVaesen - Klirren am Königsberger Forst Teil 3Dies ist der dritte Teil des zweiten Abenteuer der deutschen Vaesen Kampagne im Königreich Bayern. Über die katholische Kirche erfährt die Gesellschaft etwas über eine mysteriöse Erblindung einer Magd in Steinhöring und machen sich mit der Postkutsche auf den Weg in den Königsberger Forst. Cast Janine als Minna Beutler Lillianne (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSXf41_q-wRJeN5AtkmxBEQ) als Alexandra von Schönstein Sascha als Heiner Ritterspacher Ben als Albrecht #Vaesen #ActualPlay #VaesenImKönigreichBayern #pnpde Coverbild CC-BY-SA https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/8MLvMldxz3
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Vaesen: Im Königreich Bayern by zeitigerVaesen - Klirren am Königsberger Forst Teil 2Dies ist der zweite Teil des zweiten Abenteuer der deutschen Vaesen Kampagne im Königreich Bayern. Über die katholische Kirche erfährt die Gesellschaft etwas über eine mysteriöse Erblindung einer Magd in Steinhöring und machen sich mit der Postkutsche auf den Weg in den Königsberger Forst. Cast Janine als Minna Beutler Lillianne (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSXf41_q-wRJeN5AtkmxBEQ) als Alexandra von Schönstein Sascha als Heiner Ritterspacher Ben als Albrecht #Vaesen #ActualPlay #VaesenImKönigreichBayern #pnpde Coverbild CC-BY-SA https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/8MLvMldxz3
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Vaesen: Im Königreich Bayern by zeitigerVaesen - Klirren am Königsberger Forst Teil 1Dies ist der erste Teil des zweiten Abenteuer der deutschen Vaesen Kampagne im Königreich Bayern. Über die katholische Kirche erfährt die Gesellschaft etwas über eine mysteriöse Erblindung einer Magd in Steinhöring und machen sich mit der Postkutsche auf den Weg in den Königsberger Forst. Cast Janine als Minna Beutler Lillianne (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSXf41_q-wRJeN5AtkmxBEQ) als Alexandra von Schönstein Sascha als Heiner Ritterspacher #Vaesen #ActualPlay #VaesenImKönigreichBayern #pnpde Coverbild CC-BY-SA https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/8MLvMldxz3
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treibhaus - der klimapodcast(26) Süchtig nach Fleisch (wie nach Öl)Wie wir aus der Fleischfalle wieder herauskommen
Wie wir es auch drehen und wenden: Fleisch ist nicht gut fürs Klima. Weil die Fleischproduktion viel Fläche braucht, weil Tiere viel Futter benötigen, weil für dieses Futter viel Regenwald vernichtet wird, weil vor allem Rinder viel Treibhausgas produzieren. Manche Berechnungen sagen, dass der Fleischkonsum so schädlich fürs Klima ist, wie die ganze weltweite Mobilität, also Flugverkehr, Autoverkehr, Schiffsverkehr. Dennoch steigt der Fleischkonsum weltweit an - warum dieser Trend radikal gebrochen werden muss, erklärt die Nachhaltigkeitsforscherin Minna Kanerva, die in ihrem neuen Buch «The New Meatw...2021-12-2241 min
Cuerpa PoliticaTracing Eugenic ideas in Latin America. With Professor Alexandra Minna SternProfessor Alexandra Minna Stern works at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the history of eugenics and the uses and misuses of genetics in the United States and Latin America. Her recent book publications are Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (2012), and Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination (2019). In this conversation we start with the global ‘semantic landscape of eugenics’, through the nineteent...2021-07-2237 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #41: Kathleen Belew, Britt Halvorson, Joshua Reno, and Alexandra Minna SternThis episode brings together historians and anthropologists to explore questions that are anthropological in scale: race, racism, whiteness, white supremacy, and white nationalist movements in North America and Europe. Kathleen Belew is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago, whose book, Bring the War Home, explores the recent history of white nationalist movements and organising in the years between the Vietnam War and the Oklahoma City bombing. Alexandra Minna Stern is a Professor of History, American Culture and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, whose work has investigated the intersections of eugenics, racism, and...2021-05-0255 min
12 Rules For WHAT29 - Proud Boys And The White Ethnostate w/ Alexandra SternSam sits down with historian Professor Alexandra Minna Stern to discuss her 2019 book Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate, an intellectual history of the core ideas of the alt right.
The interview covers a lot of ground and includes a periodisation of the far right, the idea of a white ethnostate, changes and continuities in the category of whiteness and the prospects of the far right in a post Trump world.
You can find out more about the book here:
http://www.beacon.org/Proud-Boys-and-the-White-Ethnostate-P1470.aspx
Professor Stern is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture...2020-12-3057 min
Michigan MindsDiscussing Rising Tensions Amid the 2020 ElectionIn this episode of Michigan Minds, Alexandra Minna Stern, professor of American Culture, History, and Women's Gender and Studies, discusses rising tensions amid the 2020 election. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-11-0215 min
1 big thingThe future of American terrorYesterday, the FBI announced terrorism charges against an anti-government militia group for plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Now, University of Michigan professor Alexandra Minna Stern is saying that politically motivated violence may only get worse.
Plus, the debate around whether another presidential debate will or won't happen.
And, sports betting is one industry thriving during the pandemic.
Guests: Axios' Hans Nichols, Kendall Baker and University of Michigan professor Alexandra Minna Stern.Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Carol Wu, Cara Shillenn...2020-10-0910 min
Try Trial Again20. Wait a MinnaIn 1918, the Bolsheviks murdered Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and his kids Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. Or so people thought. Years later, a woman named Anna Anderson claimed to be Anastasia and sued the Czar's living relatives for recognition. Was she the last of the Romanovs or just an imposter? We argue Germany's longest court case with Greg Daniels. Follow @TryTrialAgain on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.2020-07-281h 20
Future HindsightDeconstructing the Alt-Right: Alexandra Minna SternCulture Informs Politics The Alt-Right believes politics is downstream from culture. They operate in this meta-political sphere where changing American politics must start with changing culture, discourse, and language. The internet allowed the Alt-Right’s ideology to proliferate through memes, in online communities, and finally into mainstream culture. After the 2016 election collapsed the timing between culture and politics, the internet continues to serve as a platform to disseminate their cultural values. Conversely, de-platforming prominent Alt-Right voices like Gavin McInnes and Alex Jones has reduced their ability to gain new adherents. Gateway to Extremism Th...2020-07-0331 minFuture HindsightDeconstructing the Alt-Right: Alexandra Minna SternCulture Informs Politics The Alt-Right believes politics is downstream from culture. They operate in this meta-political sphere where changing American politics must start with changing culture, discourse, and language. The internet allowed the Alt-Right’s ideology to proliferate through memes, in online communities, and finally into mainstream culture. After the 2016 election collapsed the timing between culture and politics, the internet continues to serve as a platform to disseminate their cultural values. Conversely, de-platforming prominent Alt-Right voices like Gavin McInnes and Alex Jones has reduced their ability to gain new adherents. Gateway to Extremism Th...2020-07-0331 min
KPFA - Against the GrainThe Alt-Right’s Battle of IdeasThe alt-right is white nationalist, misogynist, and highly transphobic, mobilizing resentment against changing gender hierarchies and feared demographic change in America. Historian Alexandra Minna Stern discusses the appeal of the alt-right, from when it first came to national prominence in 2016, through its change of fortunes in the wake of the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville the following year, to the intricacies of present.
Resources:
Alexandra Minna Stern, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination Beacon Press, 2019
The post The Alt-Right’s Battle of Ideas appeared fi...2019-09-0305 min
In The ThickCard-Carrying White NationalistsFrom the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Christchurch, New Zealand, to the Charlottesville car attack in 2017, it’s clear that white nationalists and the “alt-right” are not just living on the dark corners of the internet, but actually carry out deadly violence in the world. Maria and Julio talk with Alexandra Minna Stern, professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, about her latest book, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination. They discuss white nationalist groups and how misogyny and white supremacy are the underlying...2019-08-1637 min
Scheer IntelligenceIs Trump Building a White Ethnostate?
Author and University of Michigan professor Alexandra Minna Stern traces the origins of America's burgeoning white nationalist movement.
2019-08-0941 min
Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike EagleThere Is Alt-Lite That Never Goes Out with Alexandra Minna SternIn this week’s fascinating episode, Alexandra Minna Stern joins Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) to discuss how white supremicst and white nationalist ideologies became so entrenched in our current political landscape. We’re now in the age of Proud Boys running for office and Alexandra’s new book, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination is the perfect launching pad into the deep, dark underbelly of modern white supremicist media and ideology. Together, they tackle several key issues including how to cover these groups without inflating them and the oft underreported emphasis these...2019-07-261h 08
Let Your Imagination Run Wild With Our Captivating Free AudiobookProud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination Audiobook by Alexandra Minna SternListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 355099
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Release date: 07-16-19
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Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Politics, North America, Social Science, Political Ideologies
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What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness?
Historian Alexandra Minna Stern excavates the alt-right memes that have erupted online and digs to the root of the far right’s...2019-07-166h 18
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What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness? Historian Alexandra Minna Stern excavates the alt-right memes that have erupted online and digs to the root of the far right’s...2019-07-166h 18
Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceProud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination by Alexandra Minna SternPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination Author: Alexandra Minna Stern Narrator: Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 16, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness? Historian Alexandra Minna Stern excavates the alt-right memes that have erupted online and digs to the root of the far...2019-07-1610 min
New Free Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsProud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination by Alexandra Minna SternPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination Author: Alexandra Minna Stern Narrator: Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 16, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness? Historian Alexandra Minna Stern excavates the alt-right memes that have erupted online and digs to the root of...2019-07-1610 minGet New Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsProud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination by Alexandra Minna SternPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355099to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination
Author: Alexandra Minna Stern
Narrator: Frankie Corzo
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Release date: July 16, 2019
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What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness? Historian Alexandra Minna Stern excavates the alt-right memes that have erupted online and digs to the root of the...2019-07-166h 18
Private Parts Unknown: Sex & Love Around the WorldGrandmas, Sisters & the Foundation of Feminist FinlandFor the 5th episode of Private Parts Unknown—the 3rd in our Helsinki series—your favorite commuter companions, Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra, are thrilled to introduce you to feminism in Finland & how it got that way.We explore how World War II helped pave a foundation for feminism to thrive in Finland, their world-famous maternity package, the influence of grandmas & sisters on our interviewees' personal lives & businesses, young female entrepreneurship in Helsinki & the subtle significance of having older women depicted in art.Thanks to the following people for lending us their voices & teaching us about their...2019-05-3146 min
Ottoman History PodcastEugenics in US History | Sarah MilovSarah Milov is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, where she teaches courses on modern US history. Her first book, The Cigarette: A Political History, will be published by Harvard University Press in the fall of 2019.
Reading list:
Daniel Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity
Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
Sharon Leon, An Image of God: the Catholic Struggle with Eugenics
Paul Lombardo,
Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
James Whitman, Hitler's American Model: The United...2019-05-2134 min
Private Parts Unknown: Sex & Love Around the WorldHei Girl Hei: Dating & Romance in Helsinki, Finland—The Happiest Country in the WorldFor the 4th episode of Private Parts Unknown—the 2nd in our Helsinki series—your favorite commuter companions, Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra, are thrilled to introduce you to dating & romance in the capital city of the happiest country in the world: Helsinki, Finland.We delve into the “classic Finnish” quirks that inform how they approach dating, romance & happiness, including their hatred of small talk, their pursuit of self-improvement in the name of efficiency & their collective island fantasy. We also learn about popular first dates in Helsinki, explore the recent phenomenon of Finnish women “importing” foreign men for relationship...2019-05-0849 min
New Books in MedicineAndrew J. Hogan, “Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)How did clinicians learn to see the human genome? In Life Histories of Genetic Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Andrew J. Hogan makes the subtle argument that a process described by scholars of biomedicine as “molecularization” took place gradually and unevenly as genetic tools became applied to prenatal diagnosis. Hogan follows the notion of a “one mutation, one disease” perspective that provided the rhetorical and epistemic scaffolding for the Human Genome Project’s imaginary of genetic medicine as it emerged and developed within the clinic. His deft analysis of visual practices and careful unpacking of the scientific literature make for an eng...2018-09-1334 min
New Books in Biology and EvolutionAndrew J. Hogan, “Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)How did clinicians learn to see the human genome? In Life Histories of Genetic Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Andrew J. Hogan makes the subtle argument that a process described by scholars of biomedicine as “molecularization” took place gradually and unevenly as genetic tools became applied to prenatal diagnosis. Hogan follows the notion of a “one mutation, one disease” perspective that provided the rhetorical and epistemic scaffolding for the Human Genome Project’s imaginary of genetic medicine as it emerged and developed within the clinic. His deft analysis of visual practices and careful unpacking of the scientific literature make for an eng...2018-09-1334 min
New Books in the History of ScienceAndrew J. Hogan, “Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)How did clinicians learn to see the human genome? In Life Histories of Genetic Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Andrew J. Hogan makes the subtle argument that a process described by scholars of biomedicine as “molecularization” took place gradually and unevenly as genetic tools became applied to prenatal diagnosis. Hogan follows the notion of a “one mutation, one disease” perspective that provided the rhetorical and epistemic scaffolding for the Human Genome Project’s imaginary of genetic medicine as it emerged and developed within the clinic. His deft analysis of visual practices and careful unpacking of the scientific literature make for an eng...2018-09-1334 min
Life of the LawBONUS: A Conversation on Eugenics and the LawLast week, we published STERILIZED, Reporter Jess Engebretson's disturbing story of Rose Brooks and Lewis Reynolds, two of more than 60,000 men and women forcibly sterilized in the United States by doctors working in state hospitals. The doctors and nurses who performed the vasectomies and salpingectomies weren't breaking the law.
Throughout the 20th Century, state legislators passed laws that allowed these surgical procedures. It was all part of the early 20th century eugenics movement. But, you might ask, how could this happen? How could the law deny tens of thousands of men and women the right to have children?
Life of t...2016-03-2933 min
New Books in TechnologyAlexandra Minna Stern, “Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)Due in part to lobbying efforts on behalf of the human genome project, human genes tend to be thought of in light of the present–genetic components of human disease and differential risks associated with genetic individuals–before the future, what gets passed on to later generations. However, public understanding of genetics did not merely radiate from laboratories, as Alexandra Minna Stern‘s book, Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (Johns Hopkins University, 2012) shows. Before the age of genetic sequencing and mass-produced tests, physicians from various specialties provided genetic counseling on an ad-hoc basis, most of which...2015-08-101h 10New Books in MedicineAlexandra Minna Stern, “Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)Due in part to lobbying efforts on behalf of the human genome project, human genes tend to be thought of in light of the present–genetic components of human disease and differential risks associated with genetic individuals–before the future, what gets passed on to later generations. However, public understanding of genetics did not merely radiate from laboratories, as Alexandra Minna Stern‘s book, Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (Johns Hopkins University, 2012) shows. Before the age of genetic sequencing and mass-produced tests, physicians from various specialties provided genetic counseling on an ad-hoc basis, most of which...2015-08-101h 10
New Books in Biology and EvolutionAlexandra Minna Stern, “Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)Due in part to lobbying efforts on behalf of the human genome project, human genes tend to be thought of in light of the present–genetic components of human disease and differential risks associated with genetic individuals–before the future, what gets passed on to later generations. However, public understanding of genetics did not merely radiate from laboratories, as Alexandra Minna Stern‘s book, Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (Johns Hopkins University, 2012) shows. Before the age of genetic sequencing and mass-produced tests, physicians from various specialties provided genetic counseling on an ad-hoc basis, most of which...2015-08-101h 08