A Man’s Mouth Is His Castle: The Midcentury Controversy Over Fluoridation and the Visceral Public

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Hiram Smith Hall, Room 135, 1545 Observatory Drive. Free and open to the public.

Science communication colloquium hosted by the Department of Life Sciences Communication at UW-Madison.

Come hear Jenell Johnson,  assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts at UW-Madison , speak at our weekly colloquium series.

Jenell Johnson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts and an affiliate faculty member in Life Sciences Communication and Gender and Women's Studies.  Her research focuses on the circulation of scientific and medical information in the public sphere, with an emphasis on the social and political dimensions of nonexpert engagement with science, medicine, and technology. Much of her work has looked closely at issues related to how we understand the meaning of neuroscience, psychiatry, and mental disability. These interests are best illustrated by her book American Lobotomy, which explores how representations of psychosurgery shaped the rise, fall, and "return" of lobotomy in US medicine, and the edited collection The Neuroscientific Turn, a collection of essays from humanists and scientists reflecting on the growth of the "neuro-disciplines."