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

Friday
Virginia Tech
The Foreign and the Familiar: Competing Constructions of the
Gastric Band. Lisa Joy Borello, Georgia Institute of Technology
Solving Sexual Assault...One Technology at a Time? Deborah
White, Trent University; Gethin Rees, The University of Edinburgh
Chair:
Deborah White, Trent University
144. Understanding Genetics
1:30 to 3:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Kaye
Participants:
Between Determinism and Weak Predictivity: Predictive Genetic
Testing for Common Diseases and Primary Preventive Medicine.
HIroshi Yamanaka, Osaka University
New Molecular Techniques and the Changing “Look” of Genetic
Diseases. Andrew J Hogan, University of Pennsylvania
The Truth about the Family: DNA Testing for Family Reunification.
Torsten Heinemann, Goethe University Frankfurt, Department of
Social Sciences
Revisiting Lewontin's Fallacy. Paola Raska, Case Western Reserve
University
Chair:
peter john taylor, UMass Boston
145. Uncertainty and Disaster
1:30 to 3:00 pm
Crowne Plaza: Miller
Participants: