Subject: Join us: Talking Biopolitics with Nathaniel Comfort and Alexandra Minna Stern
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 01:45:12 +0000

Talking Biopolitics with Nathaniel Comfort and Alexandra Minna Stern  ( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s10150j9wSBP )
Friday, Febrauary 27 at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 19:00 (GMT)
Follow the conversation at #TalkingBiopolitics ( https://twitter.rsvp1.com/s103d0j9wSBV )

( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s1b951j9wSC0 )

Dear Subscriber,

We are excited to present two leading scholars of the history of eugenics and the shifting uses of medical genetics in the United States. For the first time in a live online conversation, Nathaniel Comfort and Alexandra Minna Stern will discuss their research and answer your questions. They will share insights based on their extensive work and thinking about the history and ongoing implications of the quest for &ldquo;human perfection&rdquo; in an age of rapidly advancing genetic technologies.
Please join us on February 27 for this live web-based conversation with Nathaniel and Alexandra.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration ( http://www.geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s17b10j9wSC7 ) is required!
Feel free to forward this invitation to your friends and colleagues.

Looking forward,

Marcy Darnovsky, Executive Director
Center for Genetics and Society ( http://geneticsandsociety.rsvp1.com/s18411j9wSCc )

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Nathaniel Comfort ( http://www.hopkinshistoryofmedicine.rsvp1.com/s18391j9wSCi ) is a Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University. His research has focused on heredity and health in twentieth century America. He is the author of The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine ( http://amzn.rsvp1.com/s18111j9wSCo ) (Yale, 2012), The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock&rsquo;s Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control  ( http://amzn.rsvp1.com/s14810j9wSCs )(Harvard, 2001), and the edited volume, The Panda&rsquo;s Black Box: Opening Up the Intelligent Design Debate  ( http://amzn.rsvp1.com/s18f51j9wSCx )(Johns Hopkins, 2007).
Alexandra Minna Stern ( http://www.minnastern.rsvp1.com/s19f11j9wSCG ) is is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Culture, and History at the University of Michigan. She is a Researcher in the Program on Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice and a core faculty member in Latina/o Studies. She is the author of Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America ( https://jhu.rsvp1.com/s19151j9wSCP )  (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Mo ( http://www.ucpress.rsvp1.com/s19791j9wSCY )dern America ( http://www.ucpress.rsvp1.com/s14a52j9wSD4 ) (University of California Press, 2005), and co-editor of Formative Ye ( http://www.press.umich.rsvp1.com/s17652j9wSDd )ars: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000 ( http://www.press.umich.rsvp1.com/s1b2d3j9wSDj ) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002).

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