WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 2 - Society for Social Studies of Science

3:30 to 5:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: White
Thursday
Participants:
The Present of the Future: Technology, Education and Children.
David Shutkin, John Carroll University
Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing for Child Talent in China:
Experts’ Views and the Corporations Strategies. Hui Wen, Osaka
University; HIroshi Yamanaka, Osaka University
Education, Science, and Culture: Science Curricula in Colombian
Schools, 1950‐1965. Nicolas Sanchez Guerrero, IHPST, University
of Toronto
Unusual Appropriations in Scientific Discourse during Science
Classes. Aline de Moura Mattos, Universidade Estadual de
Londrina; Moisés Alves de Oliveira, Universidade Estadual de
Londrina
Scantrons, Statistics and Schoolteachers: Science, Technology and
Performance Assessment in US Public Schools. Paul Burnett, St.
Thomas University, New Brunswick
Chair:
Paul Burnett, St. Thomas University, New Brunswick
082. The Cultures of Biomedical Science
3:30 to 5:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Allen
Participants:
Biomedical Bodies as "Parts Catalogues": Novel Metaphors in Post‐
genomics. Cameron Michael Murray, York University
Digitalization’s "Occult Virus": Competing Constructions of Risk in
Transfusion Medicine Blood Screening. Katerina Vlantoni,