Science Studies
Scholars in the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS) examine knowledge production, scientific practices, and therapeutics in social and cultural context.
At UCSC, STS scholars analyze the symbolic dimensions and representational practices of global and community health; articulate the role of science, technology, and medicine in processes of racialization and colonization; map new geographies of scientific and global health governance and their implications for health access; infuse questions of bioethics with questions of social justice; and identify how models, metrics, and instruments bring new social phenomena into being and with what implications for the valuation of human life.
To contextualize contemporary developments, we draw from work in the history of science, medicine, and empire to consider how ideas about human and environmental health have circulated in prior historical epochs and what their legacies are in the present. And in studying the making and doing of global health, we seek to engage in re-worlding for a more just and equitable world for all living beings.
Faculty
Chris Benner
Professor/Director, Inst. for Social Transformation & Everett Program
Env. Studies & Sociology
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Matt Sparke
Professor
Politics, Executive Director of Global and Community Health
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Neel Ahuja
Associate Professor
Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
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