| Thursday, September 23rd, 12:30pm, 6th floor of Humanities Office | Leigh Hursh and David O'Donaghue are trained and practicing psychologists, both are now pursuing degrees in Philosophy. They collaborated on a presentation and an article which details for a variety of philosophical doctrines how each might enter into a therapeutic interaction. At this Science Studies meeting they will discuss psychology as it is situated between science (medical model) and art (hermeneutics, imaginative life-stories). |
| Thursday, November 18th, 12:30pm, noon, 6th floor of Humanities Office | Nawin Mishra (Biology) gives a presentation: "Genetics and Beyond: Yes, Virginia, there is a Genetic Component to almost eyerthing in life...." |
| Tuesday, December 7th,12:30 to 2pm,Gambrell 429 | Panel discussion on "impure knowledge" and the shift of "scientific expertise" from trained scientists at research institutions to advocates and activists or, especially in the case of AIDS-research, to the patients. Is this shift really happening? What kinds of problems does it present? Is it beneficial to the advancement of science, society, individual and public health? Is science no longer the privileged producer of "publically certified knowledge"? Inspired by Steven Epstein's book Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). The discussants are Charles Bryan (School of Medicine), Ed Madden (English), and Richard Sowell (College of Nursing). |
| Wednesday, January 26th, 12:30 in Gambrell 429 | Presentation by William Hine (History, SC State University) and
Darlene Clark Hine (Michigan State University) on the researches
of SC physician James Marion Sims. His 1849-cure of
vesico-vaginal fistula involved many years of painful
experimentation on slaves: His interactions with these black women
cannot be classified simply as exploitative, however, but gives rise
to numerous interesting questions...
[co-sponsored by Bioethics Center] |
| Wednesday, February 23rd, 3:30, Russell House Room 201 | Ken Schaffner (George Wshington University) will discuss with George Khushf (USC's Center for Bioethics), Andy Gordon (Public Health) and Jim Buggy (Medicine) the claims of alternative or complementary science: Does complementary science employ a notion of causality that sets it apart from the causal claims of "school medicine"? If not, why should we not accept the methods of "school medicine" as arbiter concerning the proposals of (so- called?) alternative or complementary medicine? |
| Thursday, March 2nd, 12:30 in the Preston Residential College Seminar Room - with a reception to follow at 2pm | Roundtable discussion with James Gordon who served as chairman of Program Advisory Council of NIH's Office for Alternative Medicine. Discussants include Jim Buggy (School of Medicine), Andrew Cousins (Anthropology), and Alfred Nordmann (Philosophy). Gordon is author of Manifesto for a New Medicine and this year's Townsend Lecturer on the Social Impact of the Biological Sciences. (Thursday 3/2 at 7pm in the Law School Auditorium) |
| Thursday, March 16th, 12:30, Room 621/Seminar Room of the Philosophy Department in the Humanities Office Building | "The Kept University": Commercially sponsored research is putting at risk the paramount value of higher education -- disinterested inquiry. Even more alarming, the authors of a cover-story in this month's Atlantic Monthly argue, universities themselves are behaving more and more like for-profit companies. Corruption of Science: The Troubling Relationship Between University and Free Enterprise. Peter Sederberg (Political Science and Honors College) and Doug Williams (Geology and Honors College). |
| Thursday, April 13th, 12:30, Room 621/Seminar Room of the Philosophy Department in the Humanities Office Building (tentative location) | Brown bag luncheon with Jutta Schickore (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin):"Apology for Sensibility -- Optical Illusion and Misperception in the work of the Scientist-Philosophers I. Kant, J. F. Fries, and M. J. Schleiden." Science relies on the testimony of the senses. But what if that testimony is fallible, perhaps prone to error? How can scientifically methodology take this possibility into account, perhaps correct for it? Jutta Schickore will present Kant's view, that of the scientific philosopher Fries (a Kantian himself), and that of the philosophical botanist Schleiden (who was influenced by Fries) - for an intellectual exciting story of 19th century science. (Co-sponsored with the Philosophy Department) |
| Thursday, April 20th, 4pm, room tba | Annual Science Studies Lecture with Gregor Schiemann (History and Philosophy of Science, Dibner Institute for the History of Science) who will speak about Aristotle's and Descartes's Concepts of Nature - which form an important backdrop and contrast to contemporary science's conception of nature. The Science Studies Lecture is sponsored by the College of Science and Math, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Philosophy Department. |
| Thursday, April 20, 8pm | A visit of the USC Theatre production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. Stoppard's plays are witty and intelligent not only in dialgue but also in their construction (he wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and also, for example, the screenplay to Shakespeare in Love). Arcadia engages Chaos theory on a variety of levels and provides a whimsical, yet deep reflection on science and art. An informal discussion of the play will follow. |
| The (Political) Science of Salt: Did Anything Go Wrong? | |
| Alternative vs. School Medicine at the Medical School (with special emphasis on Therapeutic Touch) | |
| Presentation by Henry Cribbs |
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