Heather Dron is a historian of medicine and public health who studies pregnancy, prenatal care, and infant disability. She completed her PhD in history of health science at the University of California San Francisco in 2016 and is a former fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Her dissertation examined research on studied environmental exposures during pregnancy in the…
PhD, Geography Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Jonah Walters is a human geographer whose research examines state and popular responses to mass social vulnerability. At ISG, he studies the sociotechnical construction of lethality in medicolegal death examination as a member of the BioCritical Studies Lab under the direction of Associate Professor Terence Keel. His current project interrogates the…
William Wannyn is a sociologist of science, knowledge and culture who investigates the entanglements of neuroscientific knowledge and political categories in contemporary societies. His work focuses on questions related to the scientific, political and cultural co-production of classifications, generalizations and standards, and their use in public policy making. William Wannyn received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Montreal…
PhD, Philosophy Anne Le Goff is a philosopher working in bioethics and science and technology studies. She uses the tools of philosophy and ethnography to ask how our concepts of and norms around life are transformed by practices in contemporary life sciences and biotechnologies, ethics, and our relationships to nonhuman animals. Her current research focuses on germ cells and the germline.…