Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:
Communications 139
A work in progress presentation by Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
"Life Repeated: Animals and Film as Experimental Bodies" examines two methodological solutions to the problem of repetition in the study of physiology and medicine: The use of animals and the use of film to produce morally neutral, disposable, and repeatable experimental subjects. Focusing on the theories of Claude Bernard, this paper argues that the discourse surrounding the use of animal bodies in the lab largely influenced and set the stage for later debates over film's use in experimental medicine. This is a work-in-progress in preparation for a presentation that will be given at the DOMITOR conference at Stockholm this June.