Marissa Mika, U of San Francisco Monday, December 14
4pm – E51-095 Cobalt Blues: The Half Life of Technology Transfer What happens when oncology's technologies travel? Focusing on the history of cancer care in Uganda for the past 50 years, I show how the historically situated techno-politics of a one-time radiotherapy donation continue to shape the ethical and practical realities of cancer care today in one corner of the Global South. This is a meditation on the "half life" of machines, technocratic imaginaries, and the limits of repair in a unequal world. BIO: Marissa Mika is a historian focusing on issues where science, technology, medicine, and politics intersect in modern Africa. She works primarily in east Africa, and is writing a book on the history of a major cancer research center in Uganda currently entitled Research is Our Resource: Surviving Experiments and Politics at an African Cancer Institute. She is in the early stages of developing a project on material and spatial histories of medical waste, Where There is No Incinerator, which examines the thin line between disposability and reuse in health work in sub-Saharan Africa. Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner Gren Foundation, and the University of Pennsylvania among others. Dr. Mika currently teaches African history at the University of San Francisco and is a visiting scholar at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a PhD in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked in sub-Saharan Africa since 2002 and has a background in international development and public health. ____________________________________________ Gus Zahariadis Assistant to the Director Program in Science, Technology, and Society T: (617) 253-3452 F: (617) 258-8118
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