Michelle Murphy
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Michelle Murphy (born 1969)[1] is a Canadian academic. She is a professor of history and women and gender studies at the University of Toronto and director of the Technoscience Research Unit.[2]
Michelle Murphy | |
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Born | Claudette Michelle Murphy[1] 1969[1] |
Nationality | Canadian, American |
Alma mater | Harvard University, University of Toronto |
Known for | Regimes of imperceptibility, environmental justice |
Awards | Ludwik Fleck Prize (2008 and 2019) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History of science, philosophy of science |
Institutions | University of Toronto |
External videos | |
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“Abduction, Reproduction, and Postcolonial Infrastructures of Data”, Michelle Murphy, S&F Online |
Murphy is well known for her work on regimes of imperceptibility, the ways in which different forms of knowledge become visible or invisible in the scientific community and broader society. Murphy has published several books, including Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers (2006) which won the Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science,[3][4] Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience (2012), and The Economization of Life (2017).