We welcome you to the TRRU. Local and global practices of science, technology and medicine have targeted our bodies, producing sites of compromise, categorization and contestation. We are promised the benefits of biotechnologies while simultaneously exposed to their associated risks (environmental decline, chronic illness, new viruses, super bacteria, tissue markets). Supported by publicly funded and corporate-driven industrial research agendas, these technologies create new ways of representing scientific and cultural facts. Who and what drives these ventures and values and how can we best come to understand them? read more
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Canadian Anthropology Society / Société canadienne anthropologie
Professor Janice Graham has been elected President of the Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne anthropologie. At the annual meetings in Montreal May 31-June 3, she has organized and is chairing a CASCA-CIHR-SSHRC Roundtable forum on the new funding initiatives for health research in Canada. She has also organized and is chairing a session on The Anthropology of Vaccines with her postdoctoral fellows Farah Huzair, Amrita Mishra, Alex Borda-Rodriguez and Marylene Dugas, which presents preliminary findings from the CIHR grant "Regulatory challenges to the development of new vaccines: Mapping emergent relations between science, evidence and policy."
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Contesting Aging & Loss, a new book
Dr. Janice Graham and Dr. Peter Stephenson are the co-editors of the new book Contesting Aging and Loss, published in April 2010 by the University of Toronto Press. This work takes a look at ways in which the idea that older adults are necessarily in decline causes problems in itself.
“Contesting Aging & Loss provides a richness of thought for the experienced policy-maker, academic, and the up-and-coming student concerned with the challenging concepts of loss and aging,” says JF Kozak, Providence Health Care, Vancouver.
For more information, or to purchase a copy, please visit: http://www.utppublishing.com/product.php?productid=2662&cat=0&page=1
TRRU is an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by medical anthropologist and Canada Research Chair, Professor Janice Graham. We draw from anthropology, sociology, biomedicine and political science to study configurations of technoscience and risk.
Our research group at Dalhousie University in Halifax uses a science and technology studies conceptual framework and multi-sited ethnographic methodological approach to understand how scientific and cultural facts emerge. While our primary research site is Canada, our members have conducted research in Burkina Faso, Colombia and the United Kingdom.
Technoscience and Regulation Research Unit
Dalhousie University
5849 University Avenue
CRC Room 315
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
B3H 4H7
phone: 902.494.6733
fax: 902.494.3865
email: trru@dal.ca
