Murphy, Michelle -

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Michelle
Last Name: 
Murphy
Department / Program: 
History
Other: 
History and Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies
University Affiliation: 
University of Toronto
Phone: 
4169788964
Email Address: 
michelle.murphy@utoronto.ca
Area of Research
Subject: 
Medicine
Geographical Region: 
United States of America
Time Period: 
20th Century
Current
Specific Area of Research: 
The history of technoscience, sex, gender, race, environmental politics and capitalism in the United States through transnational and postcolonial theoretical perspectives.
Academics
PHD Program: 
History of Science
PHD University: 
Harvard
PHD Date: 
1998
Major Publications: 
Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Technoscience, Feminist Health, and Biopolitics in the Contradictions of American Empire. (forthcoming book); Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty (Duke UP 2006) ; editor, Osiris 19, Landscapes of Exposure Feminist Studies, "Epistemology of Vaginal Self Exam" 2004; Labor History "Toxicity in the Details" 2000
Membership in Academic Societies: 
4S, AAA
Courses Taught: 
HIS202 Gender, Race and Science HIS 1004 History and Biopolitics