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Monday 28 May 2012, 13:00-14:15
'Vampire excursions': making blood anthropological in the postwar era
- đ¤ Speaker: Jenny Bangham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
- đ Date & Time: Monday 28 May 2012, 13:00 - 14:15
- đ Venue: Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Abstract
In the early 1950s, the blood group results of more than half a million people were collected at a new centre at London’s Royal Anthropological Institute. Jenny’s talk will be about how blood groups were given anthropological meaning. Focusing on the director of this new centre, Arthur Mourant, she will discuss how blood was collected from populations around the world, stored, transported and tested, and how blood groups were made into genetic data and integrated into textual and graphical representations of human history and race.
Series This talk is part of the Cabinet of Natural History series.
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