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litsci-l-digest          Monday, July 7 2003          Volume 01 : Number
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     Forwarded: New Book Series
     Forwarded: Roommate for SLS Meeting in Austin

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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:34:57 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Forwarded: New Book Series

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to draw your attention to a new book series in the
social, historical, and literary studies of science and technology
offered by the University of Washington Press.

IN VIVO: THE CULTURAL MEDIATIONS OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE is an
interdisciplinary series dedicated to studying the medical and life
sciences by concentrating on the practices and mediums used to process

data, model knowledge, and communicate about biomedical science (see
series description below). We are very interested in interdisciplinary

approaches combining literary studies, film studies, new media, art,
art history, history, or social theory for this exciting new venture.

Please contact,
Phillip Thurtle, pthurtle@ccs.carleton.ca 
or
Robert Mitchell, rmitch@duke.edu 

for more details.

[Feel free to distribute]
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IN VIVO: THE CULTURAL MEDIATIONS OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE

Series editors
Robert Mitchell, English, Duke University
Phillip Thurtle, Sociology, Carleton University
Acquisitions editor
Jacqueline Ettinger, Ph.D., University of Washington Press

Advisory Board:
Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Director, Max-Planck-Institut fuer
Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin.
Timothy Lenoir, Professor of History and Chair of the Program in the
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stanford
University, California.
Priscilla Wald, Associate Professor in English at Duke University,
North Carolina.
Catherine Waldby, Reader in Sociology and Communications at Brunel
University, London.
Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English and Director of the Walter
Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of
Washington.

The last few decades of the twentieth and the first few years of the
twenty-first century have witnessed the proliferation of biomedical
technologies. Stem cell research, human cloning, reproductive
technologies, and new partnerships between private and publicly funded
research are now a constant feature of headline news. Because of this,
there is a growing need to understand the social, cultural, and
humanistic implications of these new technologies and the social forces
that helped actualize them.

We intend _In Vivo: the cultural mediation of biomedical science_ to
fill this need by concentrating on the practices and mediums used to
process data, model knowledge, and communicate about biomedical
science. _In Vivo_ will publish historical analysis that helps place
current biomedical research into economic, social, political, and
cultural context. It will publish humanistic studies that will help
elucidate the larger conceptual issues at stake in biomedical
technologies and practices. And it will publish social scientific work
that can then evaluate social theoretical models for understanding and
evaluating recent biomedical developments. Perhaps most importantly of
all, it will actively encourage scholars to think in longer time frames
about the relationship of social and cultural foundations to biomedical
practices.

Specific subjects may include the uses of rhetoric in biomedical
research and applications, the use of film in medical analyses, changes
in conceptions of human embodiment resulting from changes in
representational practices, the application of virtual reality
technologies to medicine, the relationship of genomics to informational
processing, or the institutions and rhetorical ?technologies? that
enable organ donation in a consumer society.

The series will primarily publish single-author monographs at a
frequency of one to two per year. The series will select manuscripts
that offer multidisciplinary perspectives, thus providing an
interesting framework of enquiry that might not find a format for
publication in a series oriented to a single discipline.


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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 08:45:23 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Forwarded: Roommate for SLS Meeting in Austin

My name is Dirk Vanderbeke, and I am looking for a roommate to share a =
room during the SLS-conference in Austin.
I am a smoker - but would certainly not smoke if I shared a rooom with a
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non-smoker.
Plaes contact me under the email address given at the bottom of this
mail =
if
 you are interested in lowering the hotel costs this way.

All the best
Dirk

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Dirk Vanderbeke
Am Bornm=FChlenweg 73
17166 Teterow
03996/120617
vanderbeke@t-online.de 

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