Robin Scheffler to speak at APHI seminar

Mark your calendars for Robin Scheffler (MIT), who visits BU for the APHI Seminar Series on January 25 at 12:20. His talk is entitled, “Molecular Biologists Protest the War on Cancer: Biomedical Research and Setting the Limits of the State in the 1970s.”

Scheffler, Assistant Professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at MIT, is an historian of the modern biological and biomedical sciences and their intersections with developments in American history. He is currently working on a project that follows the history of cancer virus research in the twentieth century from legislature to laboratory, documenting its origins and impact on the modern biological sciences. He recently edited a special issue of Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences that focuses on the history of cancer viruses. Professor Scheffler has also published in Endeavour, and the Journal of the History of Biology.