Hannah Landecker, PhD
Professor of Sociology
UCLA
Abstract: Epidemics of metabolic diseases are a major global challenge. Understanding how colonial histories, economic inequalities, and post-industrial ways of living intersect to produce ill-health is a truly interdisciplinary task. To make progress on how to sustain health in the face of metabolic injustice, it is necessary to bring together expertise from across the medical humanities, social sciences and biomedicine. Research at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures & Environments of Health and beyond has begun to map out the work needed to integrate diverse kinds of knowledge - from lived experience, epidemiology, history, anthropology, law and many other disciplines – to work towards metabolic justice. This WCCEH Annual Lecture will be given by historian and sociologist of the life sciences Hannah Landecker, author of Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies (2007, Harvard UP). Her work has been foundational to this emerging field, and inspirational for transdisciplinary thinking.
Sponsored by the Wellcome Centre for the Cultures + Environments of Health
Location and Address
Online