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Cathy Gere (History) Home Page |
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Research and teaching: History of the life sciences and medicine, especially the neurosciences; history of the historical sciences; biomedical ethics. Profile: Cathy Gere did her PhD at the history and philosophy of science department at Cambridge University, followed by a post-doc at King’s College Cambridge. She has published on a wide range of topics including demonology, brain-banking and the sexing of bones in archaeological digs. In 2006 Harvard University Press brought out her first book, The Tomb of Agamemnon, a cultural history of the ruins of the Bronze Age city of Mycenae, and she is currently completing a manuscript about Knossos as a modernist site.Her post-doctoral work was in the history and ethics of the neurosciences, and in 2004 she co-edited a special issue of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science on the ‘Brain in a Vat’, which examined the famous philosophical thought experiment from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, including the history of technology, film studies, aesthetics and ethics. Her new project is entitled ‘The Utilitarian Self’, and concerns the entanglement of the neurosciences with political and moral philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain. Selected Publications: The Tomb of Agamemnon: Mycenae and the Search for a Hero London: Profile Press (January 2006) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (March 2006) Greek edition, Athens: Patakis Press (October 2007) Forthcoming Books: Modernist Knossos: Ariadne in the Concrete Labyrinth, under consideration by University of Chicago Press Edited volumes: Special issue of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences on the philosophical, cultural, historical and aesthetic aspects of ‘The Brain in a Vat’ Vol. 35, no. 2, June 2004. Articles: ‘Freudian archaeology and Cretan psychoanalysis’, Creta Antica 7, pp.64-80. Parry B., and Gere, C. ‘Contested Bodies: property models and the commodification of human biological artefacts.’ Science as Culture 15(2), June 2006, 139-58. Gere, C. and Parry, B.C. ‘The Flesh Made Word: Banking the Body in the Age of Information.’ Biosocieties 1:1 March 2006, pp.41-54 ‘The Brain in a Vat’ Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Vol. 35, no. 2, June 2004, pp.219-225 ‘Thought in a Vat: Thinking Through Annie Cattrell’ Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Vol. 35, no. 2, June 2004, pp.415-436 ‘A Brief History of Brain Archiving’ Journal of the History of the Neurosciences Volume 12, issue 4, December 2003, pp. 396-410 ‘Inscribing Nature: archaeological metaphors and the formation of new sciences’ Public Archaeology, 2002, Vol 2, no. 4, pp.195-208. ‘William Harvey’s Weak Experiment: the archaeology of an anecdote’, History Workshop Journal no. 51, February / March 2001, pp.19-36. ‘Bones that Matter: sex determination in paleodemography 1948-1995’. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 1999, Vol. 30, no.4, pp.455-471.
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