April 24: Delivered invited talk “The Swiss Influence on American Bioethics,” Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
April 22: Interviewed Arleen Tuchman, author of Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease, on The New Books Network along with students in the course American Medicine & the World.
April 21: Delivered invited talk, “Human subjects as contract workers: The labor origins of ethics review,” at workshop “Ethics in the Making” Institute for the History of Medicine, Universität Bern, Switzerland.
April 13: Interviewed Cristina Mejia Visperas, author of Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory, on The New Books Network, along with students in the seminar Prison Medicine.
April 11: Published review of Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis, by Sydney Halpern (Yale 2022).
March 29: Delivered invited talk, “Sharing: Three Logics of Data,” at Dunfey Conference on ‘The Ethics of Encounter: Research, Community & Repair,’ University of New Hampshire.
March 4: Delivered the 2023 Sarton Lecture, “Who Does the Work of Science? A Century of Science as Passion, Punishment, and Paycheck,” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC.
December 8: Interviewed Autumn Womack, author of The Matter of Black Living, on The New Books Network, along with students in seminar ‘Science & Technology Studies.’
December 7: Interviewed Dan Bouk, author of Democracy’s Data, on The New Books Network, along with students in ‘American Medicine & the World.’
Nov 29: Taught university workshop “Introduction to Research Ethics,” Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic (virtual).
October 22: Introduced journalist Abdullah Shihipar for “Individual Mandate: How Capitalism is Keeping Us Sick” at MHS Colloquium, Vanderbilt.
September 1: Published “The Bureaucratic Ethic & the Spirit of Bio-capitalism” in Invisible Labour in Modern Science (Bangham, Chacko & Kaplan, eds).
June 4: Presented invited plenary comments for conference, “Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Together Labor History & History of Science,” Science History Institute, Philadelphia, PA.
May 26: Published review of Alicia Puglionesi’s In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession & the Landscapes of American Empire (Simon & Schuster) in Science Magazine.
May 18: Interviewed Alicia Puglionesi, author of In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession & the Landscapes of American Empire, for episode of the New Books Network.
April 29: Interviewed Prof Anthony Hatch, author of Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America, for episode of the New Books Network (with students in Prison Medicine).
April 28: Interviewed Prof Rana Hogarth, author of Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, for episode of The New Books Network (with students in American Medicine & the World).
April 22: Presented “Settler Sciences of the Field, Lab & Archive,” in session Ethics and/of History at the Intersection of Medicine & Anthropology at annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Saratoga Springs, NY.
March 10: Presented chapter, “Accounting for Esther Smucker: The Mennonite Church, the US National Institutes of Health & the Trade in Healthy Bodies”,” at the book launch of Accounting for Health (Hüntelmann & Falk, eds.)
March 3: Published “Reservations” on science, justice & Native dispossession in the journal Isis: History of Science & its Cultural Influences 113(1): 128-136.
January 10: Published on data science ethics in history and present-day practice, “Protections for Human Subjects in Research: Old Models, New Needs?” in MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibility in Computing.
2021
December 7: Interviewed Professor Noémi Tousignant, author of Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal, for episode of the New Books Network in the course, “American Medicine & the World.”
December 2: Interviewed Professor Britt Rusert, author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism & Freedom in Early African American Culture, for episode of the New Books Network with students in the seminar, “Science & Technology Studies.”
November 19: Invited comment on panel “Problems of Freedom and Control in American Political Culture,” annual meeting of the History of Science Society.
November 5: Invited presentation “How the Normal Body Became White: Racism, Research, & the Political Structure of Knowledge,” at UCLA Department of Sociology, working group on sociology of health.
October 26: Hosted Professor Krystal Tsosie, University of Arizona, co-founder of Native BioData Consortium, for talk “Indigenous Biomarkers, Bioethics, and Biobanks” for Medicine, Health & Society Colloquium Series.
October 8: Presented “When was Normal? How the Old Jim Crow Created the New Normal,” in panel ‘After Normal,’ annual meeting of Society for the Social Studies of Science.
September 21: Hosted Professor Sirry Alang, Lehigh University, Chair of Health Justice Collaborative, for talk “People, contexts and systems: Intersections that matter for health equity” for Medicine, Health & Society Colloquium Series.
July 5: Published “What is Compliance? How Audits Change Ethics and Organizational Fields,” in Contemporary Sociology, 50(4): 273-277 with graduate students Rachel Gross, Emily O’Brian, and Jesse Pullen,
July 5: Discussant for ‘Author-meets-critic: Regulating Human Research by Sarah Babb,’ annual meeting of Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.
June 11: Published “Approaching Invisible Illness: Review of Sick & Tired,” in Science 372 (6547): 1157.
May 14: Discussant for session “Publication and Patient Privacy,” annual meeting of American Association for the History of Medicine.
April 27: Presented invited talk “How the ‘Normal’ Body became White: Racism, Research, & the Political Structure of Knowledge,” University of Manchester (UK).
April 9: Presented “How Colonialism Operates through the Concept of ‘the Field'” at workshop, What is a Field?, History & Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania.
March 9: Presented “Witness: Women’s Bodies and the Market for Human Subjects in Medicine,” at Americanist Seminar, Vanderbilt.
January 30: Published “Accounting for Esther Smucker: The Mennonite Church, the US National Institutes of Health and the Trade in Healthy Bodies, 1950-1970,” in Axel Hüntelmann and Oliver Falk, eds. Accounting for Health, series on Social Histories of Medicine, Manchester University Press.
January 22: Published review of Janice Nimura’s The Doctors Blackwell in Science Magazine.
2020
November 18: Presented “Behind the Scenes with IRBs” to the Society of Clinical Research Associates.
October 10: Co-organized “Dismantling White Supremacism: A Conversation & Plan of Action” at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society.
October 9: Congratulated Rosanna Dent, winner of the 2020 Early Career Prize, as Chair of the Forum for the History of the Human Sciences.
June 29: Published “The Hidden Racism of Vaccine Testing” in The New Republic based on Jill Fisher’s Adverse Events.
June 25: Commented on “Designing Information: Dresden’s Hygiene Project and the View from Somewhere,” by Brianne Wesoloski, in Center for Metropolitan Studies’ Research Colloquium, Technische Universität, Berlin.
June 24: Congratulated the Freidson Prize winner as a member of the prize committee for the American Sociological Association’s section on Medical Sociology: Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality.
January 22: Presented on Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind in Warren Center for the Humanities series ‘Thinking about Thought Leaders,’ Vanderbilt University.
January 11: Presented “Privacy & the Past” in Documented Lives series, Vanderbilt University.
December 5: Broadcast interview with Lundy Braun (Brown) about Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics on the New Books Network.
December 4: Broadcast interview with Rosalind Fredericks (NYU) about Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal on the New Books Network.
November 22: Awarded Mellon Partners in Humanities Education, Faculty Collaboration Grant, for A Collaborative Research Partnership in Digital and Public Humanities: Increasing Public Accessibility of Berea College’s Historical Collection via Digital Preservation.
October 7: Discussed invited paper “A People’s History of 20th Century America: Whiteness and Racialized Bioscience” at the Hopkins Seminar, Department of History, the Johns Hopkins University.
October 1: Published “Funding Panels as Declarative Bodies: Meritocracy and the History of Decision-making in Modern Science.” International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 7: 868-886.
September 4: Presented “Race, space, and design: RCTs as concept, practice & material arrangement” at Social Studies of Science annual meeting, New Orleans.
August 12: Awarded the 2019 Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association’s section on Medical Sociology for “Contracting Health: Procurement Contracts, Total Institutions, and Problem of Virtuous Suffering in Post-war Human Experiment.”
July 25: Introduced 2019 Distinguished Lecturer in the History of the Human Sciences, Nelly Oudshoorn, History of Science Society annual meeting, Utrecht, NL.
June 1: Published “Emergence” in Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society. 110(2): 332-336.
May 16: Delivered Ludy T. Benjamin Distinguished Lecture, “The Other Akron: Searching for the ‘Normal’ Mind in Postwar America,” Cummings Center for the History of Psychology.
April 12: Presented invited talk, “Print technologies as mediators: Producing the body in the late modern clinical milieu,” at Binghamton University workshop, The Abstract Body: Medicine, Science, and the Knowability of Human Experience.
April 8: Delivered STeMS Distinguished Lecture, University of Michigan, Department of History: “Race and Erasure: A People’s History of the ‘Normal’ Body.”
March 29: Presented “Making History: Introducing the ‘Vernacular Archive of Normal Volunteers‘” at Harvard History of Science Department’s History of Medicine Working Group.
March 27: Opened the “Vernacular Archive of Normal Volunteers,” a publicly available digital archive hosted by Harvard University’s Countway Center for the History of Medicine.
February 7: Presented “How to be Normal: Race, Space, and Contract Law in the Making of Markets for ‘Human Subjects'” at STS Program Colloquium Series, Brown University, Providence, RI.
January 11: Quoted in New York Magazine article on the Boghossian hoax.
December 15: Published “Making a Marking” an introduction to the special issue “Writing as Action, Situation, and Trace,” L Stark (ed), History & Theory 57(4).
December 10: Published “‘The Ineffable’: A Framework for the Study of Methods through the Case of Mid-Century Mind-Brain Sciences” in Social Studies of Science 28(6): 789-820 (with Nancy Campbell).
November 20: Published “Contracting Health: Procurement Contracts, Total Institutions & the Problem of Virtuous Suffering in Postwar Human Experiment” in Social History of Medicine 31(4).
November 4: Discussant at workshop, “Ethics, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity in the History of the Human Sciences,” University of Washington.
November 3: Introduced Annual Distinguished Lecturer Alison Wylie as Chair of the History of Science Society’s Forum for the History of the Human Sciences.
November 3: Commented on five-paper panel “Measuring Bodies and Minds: Perspectives on Variation & Disability in the Human Sciences” at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Seattle, WA.
September 17: Presented “Making up Normal People” at Brown University History Department’s colloquium on Science, Technology, Environment & Medicine.
September 1: Published review of “What Is a Human? What the Answers Mean for Human Rights” by John H Evans in Contemporary Sociology 47(5): 583-585.
August 11: Presented “Academic Freedom and Institutional Review” as invited speaker for the ASA President’s Panel on Academic Freedom at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
June 26: Organized author-meets-readers colloquium at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) with M Norton Wise on his new book, Aesthetics, Industry, and Science.
June 21: Presented “Scientists as regulators?” at workshop, Infrastructures of Accountability organized by Frank Huisman, Noortje Jacobs, & Nancy Tomes, Descartes Centre, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
June 20: Presented “Building a Market for Human Subjects: Total Institutions, Alternate Worlds & the Space of the NIH Research Hospital, 1950-1980.” Maastricht University, Netherlands.
May 9: Commented on Cathy Gere‘s paper “Bourgeois Psychology & the Limits of Nature” for the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Division II Seminar, Berlin, Germany.
May 1: Started summer term as Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany.
April 21: Presented “The Death of Frantz Fanon: Science, Citizenship & the Methods of History” at Histories of Knowledge: A Workshop on Intellectual History & the History of Science, Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago.
April 25: Broadcast interview with author Aimi Hamraie about Building Access: Universal Design & the Politics of Disability on The New Books Network with graduate students in course, “Social Studies of Science, Medicine & Technology.”
April 17: Broadcast interview with author Susan Squier about Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor on The New Books Network with graduate students in course, “Social Studies of Science, Medicine & Technology.”
April 12: Hosted Mimi Khúc’s public lecture, “Hacking Psychiatry: Race, Gender, and Community,” as part of Vanderbilt University’s Hot Topic series in Medicine Health & Society (with Ken MacLeish).
January 1: Started second two-year term as Advisory Editor for Isis: A Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Influences.
December 21: Quoted in The Washington Post and Kaiser Health News story, “Unregulated Herpes Experiments Expose ‘Black Hole’ of Accountability,” by Marisa Taylor.
December 6: Presented “The Paradox of ‘Risk’ in the Social Sciences: A History” to the Center for Health, Law and Ethics, Haifa University, Israel.
December 1: Presented keynote talk, “The View from Somewhere: The productive Contradictions of ‘Context’ in Late Modern Science,” at the Descartes Centre for the History & Philosophy of Science’s Cultural History Research Group, Utrecht University, Netherlands.
November 27: Broadcast interview with author Michelle Murphy about The Economization of Life on The New Books Network with students in the course “History of Global Health.”
November 11: Introduced Michelle Murphy, 2017 Distinguished Lecturer for the History of Science Society’s Forum for the History of the Human Sciences, who presented “Infrastructures of Not Counting,” Toronto.
November 11: Chaired session on “Indigenous Hospitalities in the History of Science” at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Toronto.
November 10: Congratulated prize winners Joanna Radin (Early Career Award) and Alicia Puglionesi (Best Article Prize) as chair of the History of Science Society’s Forum for the History of the Human Sciences at the HSS annual awards ceremony, Toronto.
October 24: Presented “Escaping Time: Prisoners’ Escapes from NIH Medical Experiments and the Politics of History without Names,” at Vanderbilt History Department’s Americanist Seminar.
August 14: Awarded 2017 Star-Nelkin Prize from American Sociological Association’s section on Science, Knowledge and Technology, which honors the best article published in the previous two years, for “Making up ‘Vulnerable’ People: Human Subjects and the Subjective Experience of Medical Experiment,”Making up ‘Vulnerable’ People: Human Subjects & the Subjective Experience of Experiment” 28(4) Social History of Medicine, 2015 (825-848) co-authored with Nancy Campbell.
August 12: Organized session “Classification as a Social Process” for the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Montreal, CA.
July 1: Finished two-year post as co-convenor of the Consortium for the History of Science, Medicine, & Technology‘s “Working Group on History & Theory” with Professor Suman Seth (Cornell).
June 9: Presented “Working definitions: How the US NIH read political economy into the normal human body” at the Wellcome Trust (UK) workshop on Bioscience and the Politics of the Human, London, UK.
May 18-19: Organized interdisciplinary workshop “Writing as Historical Practice” for special issue of History & Theory, at the Robert Penn Warren Center, Nashville, TN.
May 3-5: Served on Local Arrangements Committee for the annual meeting of American Association for History of Medicine, Nashville, TN.
April 19: Broadcast interview on the New Books Network with author Grace Davie about Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855-2005 with graduate students in course, “Social Studies of Science, Medicine & Technology.”
April 18: Broadcast interview on the New Books Network with author Amit Prasad about Imperial Technosicence: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India with graduate students in course, “Social Studies of Science, Medicine & Technology.”
April 12: Hosted Professor Amit Prasad (University of Missouri) for public lecture, “Miracle Cures, Journeys of Hope, and a Cutting-Edge Science: 
Embryonic Stem Cell Research and therapy in a Clinic in India” at Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center, Nashville, TN.
March 15: Congratulated newly elected officers of the American Sociological Association’s section on Science, Knowledge and Technology as chair of the Nominations Committee.
Feb 15: Published “Work, welfare, and the values of voluntarism: Rethinking Anscombe’s ‘action under a description’ in postwar markets for human subjects” in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology.
Jan 7: Interviewed on the radio program, Your Health, about the past and future of research regulation. The interview starts at minute 9.
2016
Dec 12: Published “Out of their depths: ‘Moral kinds’ and the interpretation of evidence in Foucault’s modern episteme” in History & Theory.
Dec 2: Discussed “Rethinking the history of research methods: Beyond the objectivity-subjectivity debates” at The History of Postwar Social Sciences colloquium, London School of Economics.
Nov 30: Broadcast interview on the New Books Network with author Ruth Rogaski about Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty Port China with students in course, The History of Global Health.
Nov 5: Elected President of the Forum for the History of the Human Sciences.
Nov 4: Presented “Exceptional bodies & ‘normal science’: Coal miners as ‘normal controls’ in NIH psychotropic drug studies” at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Atlanta, GA.
September 15: Published “Clinical trials, healthy controls, and the birth of the IRB” in the New England Journal of Medicine with co-author Jeremy Greene.
August 19: Published a review of Luke Dittrich’s new book, Patient HM, in the journal Science.
August 18: Presented “The value of free time: Justice, politics and the market for human subjects,” at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Seattle, WA.
August 17: Announced winners of Robert K. Merton Book Prize as chair of the prize committee: Natasha Myers for Rendering Life Molecular and honorable mention Claire Decoteau for Ancestors and Antiretrovirals.
June 11: Published “The unintended ethics of Henry K Beecher” in The Lancet.
May 25: Awarded a Research Scholar Grant from Vanderbilt University for “A New History of ‘Human Guinea Pigs’: Creating the Postwar Market for Human Subjects.”
May 5: Gave Annual Hudson Lecture, University of Kansas Medical Center, “Witnessing medicine: The people and policies that created the postwar market for ‘human subjects.'”
May 3: Gave Annual Bodemer Lecture, University of Washington Medical School, “Why go first? The past and future of research on humans.”
May 1: Gave panel lecture, “How to Make a Classic: Henry K. Beecher at 50” at the annual meeting of American Association for the History of Medicine.
April 30: Appointed to Editorial Board of Lexington Books, Health Communication Series.
April 20: Broadcast interview with David Grazian, author of American Zoo, on New Books in Sociology (with students “Healing Animals”).
March 31: Awarded the 2016 Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching.
March 31: Gave invited lecture at the Cleveland Clinic, “Who is ‘vulnerable’? Clinical research after the Common Rule.”
March 30: Gave invited lecture at Cleveland State University, “The past and future of human research regulation: Principles, procedures, and the changing nature of truth.”
March 21: Gave invited lecture at Middle Tennessee State University on theme of the value of a liberal education: “Educating the student body: What biomedicine learned from the liberal arts.”
March 17: Published “The Language of Ethics: How Ethics Review Creates Inequalities for Language Minorities in Research,” in The Ethics Rupture: Exploring Alternatives to Formal Research-Ethics Review (van den Hoonaard & Hamilton, eds.) University of Toronto Press.
February 29: Gave invited lecture at Yale University Medical School: “What are ‘total institutions’? Creating a global market for human subjects in the age of Henry K. Beecher.”
February 21: Interviewed on Australia National Radio for program on “human guinea pigs, clinical trials and big business.”
February 8: Presented “Logics of service” in the Vanderbilt History Seminar 2015-16 series, “The Politics of Religion.”
December 15: Published a review of Gary Belkin’s new book, Death before Dying, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
December 1: Published “Can New Media Save the Book?,” an essay on the New Books Network, in Contexts magazine.
November 27: Published a review of Rebecca Lemov’s new book, Database of Dreams, in Science Magazine.
November 25: Broadcast an interview with Nick Hopwood, author of Haeckel’s Embryos, on New Books in History (with grad students in “New Approaches to STS”).
November 21: Presented “Bureaucracy” at panel on Invisible Labor at the History of Science Society annual meeting in San Francisco.
November 24: Broadcast an interview with Dan Bouk, author of How Our Days Became Numbered, on New Books in STS (with grad students in “New Approaches to STS”).
November 5: Presented in expert panel at the federal town hall meeting on proposed changes to the Common Rule (human-subjects research regulations), Chicago, IL.
October 23: Presented “IRBs and their critics,” on the proposed federal changes to human-subjects regulations, in the Vanderbilt Clinical & Translational Research lecture series.
September 28: Wrote a history of “critical incidents” and research ethics in psychology for Hidden Persuaders.
September 14: Reviewed Kirk and Pemberton’s book Leech on Aesop’s Anthropology.
August 21: Presented “Social life of contracts” at ASA anniversary conference, ‘Science, Knowledge, & Technology at 25.’
August 21: Awarded
July 21: Published “Why ethics fail” on psychologists’ “enhanced interrogation” scandal in Inside Higher Education.
July 17: Join Advisory Committee for the initiative on “Bridging the Research Data Divide” at Harvard University’s Countway Library of Medicine.
July 15: Wrote on “How to make a ‘vulnerable population'” for Somatosphere.
July 1: Published review of Barron Lerner’s book, The Good Doctor, in Social History of Medicine.
June 16: Presented invited talk “The normals: A shadow history of human experiment” at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.
June 11: Presented “Life and labor of medical subjects: Marx, Weber, and the sight of bureaucracy” at Invisible Technicians workshop, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
June 1: Published “Making up ‘Vulnerable’ People: Human Subjects & the Subjective Experience of Experiment” with Nancy Campbell in Social History of Medicine.
May 31: Quoted in Baltimore Sun news article, “Reforms aim to make medical research safer for its subjects” by Meredith Cohn and Jean Marbella.
May 22: Reviewed “Fatal Isolation” by Richard Keller for Science Magazine.
May 20: Presented “Contracting Health” at Abteilung 2 Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
May 16: Chaired “Sciences of Time” panel at Time & Political Authority conference, Berlin.
May 14: Discussed “Transplant Imaginary” by Lesley Sharp for Harvard Law’s Bill of Health.
May 2: Presented “More than background” in panel on “Teaching history of medicine” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
April 18: Delivered invited talk, “Suffering history,” at the conference “Les mots et les choses & beyond,” at Harvard University.
April 3: Delivered invited talk, “Welfare, work, & witness: Why clinical research can survive the death of a healthy human subject,” at University of Houston.
Feb 27: Published “Its Time to Fix Our Outdated Guidelines for Human Vaccine Trials” with Nancy Campbell at The Conversation.
Feb 18: Presented “The death of Frantz Fanon: A living colonialism in ‘Global’ Mental Health?” at the Workshop on Global Mental Health, Nashville, TN.
Feb 10: Broadcast interview with Emilie Cloatre, author of Pills for the Poorest, for The New Books Network (with students in “Medicine on Trial”).
Feb 2: Broadcast interview with Elena Conis, author of Vaccine Nation, for The New Books Network (with students in “Medicine on Trial”).
Jan 14: Broadcast interview with S. Lochlann Jain, author of Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us, for The New Books Network (with students in “Medicine on Trial”).
Jan 1: Appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal Isis: An international review devoted to the history of science & its cultural influences.
Jan 1: Appointed to the Editorial Board of the journal History of Psychology.
2014
Dec 6: Delivered invited talk “What are ‘local precedents’? Findings from Behind Closed Doors,” at PRIM&R’s 2014 convention ‘Advancing Ethical Research.’
Dec 5: Spoke at book launch featuring authors in the collection Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future (MIT, 2014).
Dec 1: Published “Stowaways in the history of science” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences with Nancy Campbell.
Nov 8: Elected Vice President of History of Science Society’s Forum for the History of the Human Sciences.
Nov 7: Presented “Moral kinds” in panel ‘Ontology & the History of Science’ at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Chicago.
Aug 20: Published “Declarative bodies: bureaucracy, ethics & science-in-the-making” in Routledge Handbook of STS, Kleinman and Moore, eds.
Aug 19: Presented “What are declarative bodies?” at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco.
Aug 1: Published “IRBs & the problem of ‘local precedents'” in Human Subjects Research Regulation (MIT Press) Cohen & Lynch eds.
July 15: Elected member of council for the Section on Science, Knowledge & Technology of the American Sociological Association.
2013
Dec 1: Published “Reading trust between the lines: ‘Housekeeping work’ & inequality in human-subjects review,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 22: 391-399.
May 18: Convened inaugural meeting of History of Clinical Trials working group at the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
March 21: Presented “Managing local precedents: Three models” at the National Academies of Science, Workshop on Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule, Washington, DC.
March 19: Presented “The life of the clinic: Creating a vernacular archive” at Digital Humanities Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
March 13: Presented “Declarative bodies and the making of a postwar medical morality: The case of research ethics committees” at Department of Social Studies of Medicine, School of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec.
January 14: Presented “Migrants or Commodities? The National Institutes of Health’s Healthy ‘Human subjects’ and the Vernacular History of Postwar America” at Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
2012
December 5: Addressed participants in “Meet the Author: Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research,” at Meeting of Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research (PRIM&R), in San Diego, CA.
December 1: Published “The House that Kuhn Built: Teaching Fleck’s Genesis and Development through Structure” in Historical Studies of the Natural Sciences 42(5): 570-575.
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