Photo by Amrita Mishra; entitled "Synapses"
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
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
Department of Bioethics
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