ANTHRO 128B Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Atrazine, Human Body
How do technologies of the body affect the
experience of (in)fertility?
One city to next = different exposure (Beijing and Mexico City = diff chemicals)
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Environment (chemical ecologies, chemospheres)
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Socioeconomic factors
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Workplace risk factors (orthopedic, exposures, hazards)
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Stress (financial, violence, familial obligations)
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Diet (availability, quality, and cost of food)
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Access to healthcare
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Embodiment: how racial disparities become embodied
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Local biologies
Bodies are not born, they are made
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The body is more than one, but less than many
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Emergent bodies and biologies
Human body once thought to be wholly organic and natural
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Combination of natural/organic and technological aspects
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Culture and technology
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Technology and bodies
Hospitals, clinics, labs influence how people view their health, illness, body, and ideas about
what it means to be human
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A lot of pesticides and pharmaceuticals are in the environment
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Pesticides, chemicals can be technologies of the body (transform the body)
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Non-existent boundaries between technologies and bodies, literally and discursively
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What does it mean to be human?
We are not human anymore
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Our bodies and biologies are being altered by the very chemicals human created and put into
the environment
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Alterlife
Stressful; helpless that not much can be done
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Contaminants in breast milk; formula is now safer
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Extra burden of trying to prohibit chemicals; affects daily life and added inconvenience
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How does the presence of toxic chemicals in the environment affect the experience of pregnancy
and motherhood?
.1 parts per billion
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What amount of atrazine causes anatomical anomalies in frogs?
Produced estrogen --> breast cancer
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What is the relationship between atrazine and breast cancer?
Acquired characteristics can be inherited through genetics
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What are the transgenerational effect of toxic substances?
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Document Summary
One city to next = different exposure (beijing and mexico city = diff chemicals) The body is more than one, but less than many. Human body once thought to be wholly organic and natural. Hospitals, clinics, labs influence how people view their health, illness, body, and ideas about what it means to be human. Pesticides, chemicals can be technologies of the body (transform the body) A lot of pesticides and pharmaceuticals are in the environment. Non-existent boundaries between technologies and bodies, literally and discursively. Our bodies and biologies are being altered by the very chemicals human created and put into the environment. Stressful; helpless that not much can be done. Contaminants in breast milk; formula is now safer. Extra burden of trying to prohibit chemicals; affects daily life and added inconvenience.
