Sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology (UC Berkeley)
And the History of Health Sciences Program (UCSF)
Sarah Jansen
Harvard University
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Biopolitics: Sustainable Forestry and Medical Police in the German Lands, 1750-1820
How did the practices of population control emerge, in what contexts, and how did the very object 'population' come into being and take shape? Focussing on two cases from the early history of population control, I will argue that forestry science and its agenda of sustainability emerged as a population science in the late 18th century, and I will examine the relationship of forestry science to strategies of regulating human populations at this time. This work is a chapter of my book in progress on the history of 'populations' as simultaneously political and scientific objects, central to and shared by the life sciences and the sciences of the state.
4:00PM
Monday, April 17, 2006
140 Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
Co-Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities
And the Science, Technology, and Society Center
Office for History of Science and Technology, 543 Stephens Hall #2350
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2350
tel: (510) 642-4581, e-mail: diana@berkeley.edu
