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Book Talks in Medical Humanities: Heather Davis's Plastic Matter

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities

November 17, 2022

Heather Davis's Plastic Matter traces plastic’s relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable.

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