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SUMMARY:Scavengers of nature: recycling in the history of science and medi
 cine - Simon Werrett (University of Washington\, Seattle)
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CONTACT:Alex Broadbent
DESCRIPTION:Recycling has played an important role in post-war environment
 alism\, yet equivalent practices of salvage\, re-use\, and recovery have a
  much older history. This paper explores the history of recycling and its 
 significance in the history of the sciences and medicine. Exploring sites 
 such as chemical laboratories\, coffee-house auctions\, flea markets\, and
  dust heaps\, I examine the changing relationships between recycling\, med
 icine\, and science from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries\, and 
 consider how practices of thrift\, repair\, re-use\, and recovery helped s
 hape a range of scientific and medical ideas\, techniques and instruments 
 in this period.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Department o
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