Tag: Science Technology and Medicine

Zika and the Common Good

Who precisely is the “common good” that the public health sector purports to serve?

Why Cavemen Needed No Braces

Crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon and a telltale symptom of an underlying epidemic.

The Genome Under the Microscope

Social genomics holds great promise but may run the risk of naturalizing human difference.

Experimenting with Slave Cures

How was new knowledge tested in the Atlantic World?

Right to Repair is Right to Interpret

As text technologies evolve, so too does the province of literary analysis.

Common Sense Science

The search for the cause of yellow fever reveals a lot about the early American republic.

Women and the World in Academia

How the global character of higher education has given women a leg up in STEM fields.

Zika and the Common Good

Who precisely is the “common good” that the public health sector purports to serve? by KATHERINE A. MASON The Zika-carrying Aedes Aegypti mosquito. Photo by James Gathany of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Public domain. It has been barely a year since the