Washington, DC, Sept. 6-7, 2019
Application deadine: Dec. 15, 2018
When the French pharmaceutical company Roussell Uclaff, a subsidiary of the German chemical giant Hoechst AG, was ready to introduce an abortion pill in 1988, American activists flooded the company’s headquarters near Frankfurt with protest letters. In response, the company’s German CEO mandated to stop the project. But the French state, a Hoechst minority shareholder, took the idea across the border, patented it, and embarked on medical trials for the new product in France. Ten years later, scientists in the United States successfully isolated human embryonic stem cells. The country’s regulatory framework had left them free to let the cells proliferate indefinitely. But researchers adopted concepts implemented in Britain to limit the cells’ growth to 13 days after gestation. Continue reading...
Tag: history of science
Knowledge Notes
- Call for papers: 8th Gewina Woudschoten Conference—Towards a History of Knowledge, in Zeist near Utrecht, June 21–22, 2019 (application deadline: January 15, 2019), via Marieke Hendriksen (@Ms_History)
- Call for submissions: Women in the History of Science: A Liberating the Curriculum Sourcebook (deadline: January 10, 2019)
- Conference report: Migrant Knowledges: Concepts, Voices, Spaces by Andrea Westermann
- Conference report: Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Knowledge by Alrun Schmidtke (@schreiber_in)
- Blog post: Copyrighting Cartography with Fictional Places by Bess Lovejoy at Atlas Obscura
- Blog post: Reconsidering Mechanization in the Industrial Revolution: The Dye Book of William Butt by Lidia Plaza (@_p_liddy) at JHIBLOG