October 15, 2014
Lecture: Alexandra Stern, “The Legacy of Eugenics in the Contemporary Era of Human Genomics”
Wednesday, 4:30 p.m., Psychology 105
Alexandra Stern is a historian of science and medicine and a professor in obstetrics and gynecology, American culture, and history at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Her forthcoming book, Genetic Counseling in Modern America: Gender, Race, Risk, and Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century (Johns Hopkins University Press) examines how the medical, social, and cultural landscape of reproductive and genetic technologies has changed since the ’50s, and what these changes mean for Americans navigating genetic medicine today. Her path breaking work, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, (University of California Press, 2005) won the 2006 American Public Health Association’s Arthur Viseltear Prize for outstanding contribution to the scholarship on the history of public health. Sponsored by the Reed departments of art, biology, and history, and the offices of the dean of the faculty and institutional diversity.
A related installation, Shades of White, created by Geraldine Ondrizek, Reed professor of art, is showing at the Artist Project Space at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, through December 14.