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Welcome

The Science, Medicine and Technology in Culture group at Penn State University is a diverse group of faculty and graduate students from the departments of History; English; Philosophy; Anthropology; Science, Technology and Society; Women's Studies; and various departments of the life and physical sciences dedicated to exploring the history, rhetoric, philosophy, and broader culture of science, technology, and medicine from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. Recent topics of instruction have included:

• Darwin's Revolution
• Historiography of Recent Science
• Science and Colonial Exchange
• Science, Technology and Sexuality
• Feminist Science Studies
• Environmental Ethics
• Human Origins: Ideologies and Controversies in Recent Theory
• Women and Gender in Science and Medicine
• Ecology of Gender
• Genetics and Genomics: Origins and Impacts
• History of Science from Prehistory through the Scientific Revolution
• Self-Fashioning: Dressing for Science and Medicine
• Rhetoric of Science
• Sports Technologies and Ethics
• Technoscience and its Deconstruction

The Science, Medicine and Technology in Culture program regularly sponsors lectures from internationally recognized experts in the sciences and humanities, with the goal of addressing broad interdisciplinary interests while also provoking critical reflection on issues of both intellectual and policy concern.

Penn State is one of the nation's foremost research universities, with more than two thousand full-time faculty in ten colleges and schools. The University ranks ninth in the nation in research-and-development funding, and second in industry-sponsored R & D. The University's WISE Institute represents an innovative approach to cross-disciplinary interaction among engineers, humanists, scientists, and social scientists on the issue of the under-representation of women in the sciences and engineering. The University Libraries have extensive holdings in areas of interest to science studies scholars.

Director

Susan M. Squier, Julia Brill Professor of Women’s Studies and English, Ph.D. Stanford University, Author Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine (Duke UP, 2004), Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology; editor Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture (Duke UP, 2003); co-editor, Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction.

Mailing List

If you would like to be added to the SMTC mailing list, please send your name, mailing address (campus or US mail), and e-mail address to Barb Edwards. Please indicate if you would also like to join SMTC's Science Studies Reading Group.