"Experimenting With the Asthma Files": A presentation with Kim and Mike Fortun April 15, 2009

Kim and Michael Fortun are professors of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Kim is the co-editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology, while Michael has been at the forefront of the genomics debate in Iceland. Some of their recent work includes Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (2001), "Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S. Toxicology" (Co-authored, 2005), and Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation (2008).

The Asthma Files is a collaborative, web-based project to draw together and explicate many different perspectives on asthma -- from different scientific disciplines, from health care providers and patients and from different geographic locales.

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