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Poster for the Levi Symposium.
12 Nov 2024

Levi Symposium: The Value(s) of Disposability in Health Care

At the Levi Symposium, scholars and practitioners explored whether healthcare must trade safety, efficacy, or efficiency for sustainability—or if durable, low-carbon alternatives can achieve all.
Graphic from 2024 HSS Annual Meeting.
07 Nov 2024

History of Science Society Annual Meeting 2024: Plastic Temporalities

At the 2024 HSS Annual Meeting, Jeremy Greene convened the roundtable Plastic Temporalities: Ecologies of Disposability in Science and Medicine, bringing together historians and anthropologists to examine the material histories…
Medical waste sits outside a medical facility in Senegal
04 Feb 2024

Clean and Dirty: Hygiene and Medical Waste

Our team at CRCF in Senegal organised a two week workshop for research assistants in the Social Sciences.
event posted showing a surgical face mask in water
01 Jun 2023

The Plastic Pandemic

Rethinking Medical Device Innovation, Use and Disposal for a Circular Economy
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