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SCIENCE STUDIES EVENTS
CULTURAL HERMENEUTICS OF NANOMEDICINE
Chris Toumey
Department of Anthropology
University of South Carolina
February 28, 2005
Monday, 12:30pm-2:00pm
Sumwalt College, Room 102
Several features of nanomedicine make it hermeneutically problematic. It
exists mostly in the future; it is often described in utopian terms; its
potential benefits will affect some medical conditions but not others; and
so on. These conditions will generate trouble for nanomedicine as different
people understand it very differently, and as the meanings of nanomedicine
change from year to year. Thus, it may be extremely difficult to give
descriptions of nanomedicine which are both accurate and general, or to
anticipate how nanomed will affect our lives, or to anticipate how people
will react to nanomedicine. In this paper, I use the tools of interpretive
anthropology to explore those problems and suggest how we might live with
their consequences.
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