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SYMPOSIUM: Science, Art and Knowledge: Practicing Natural History from the Enlightenment to the 21st Century. Part III: Agnotology and Exotic Abortifacients: The Cultural Production of Ignorance in Eighteenth-Century Science.
Title
SYMPOSIUM: Science, Art and Knowledge: Practicing Natural History from the Enlightenment to the 21st Century. Part III: Agnotology and Exotic Abortifacients: The Cultural Production of Ignorance in Eighteenth-Century Science.
Identifier(s)
video:240; 2004_04_003
Description
Dr. Schiebinger tells the history of a great plant: the Peacock Flower. She describes how this plant was known by native and enslaved women to cause abortion and how this knowledge was disseminated.
Subject
History of Science; Scientific expeditions; Women explorers; Women in science; Botany, History, 18th century; Abortion, History; APS Meeting Videos
Date
2004-04-22