Historian Alice Wexler Public Lecture
| Date | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| Time | 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
| Location | Retama Auditorium - UC 2.02.02 |
| Description | Historian Alice Wexler, Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, discusses the ways in which both biology and history, including the eugenics movement of the twentieth century, helped shape the perception and experience of hereditary disease and disability in the past, and how this histroy may offer insights for policy in the present. She will draw on the example of Huntington's Disease, a disease which has stricken her own family, and for which she is at risk. A Companion Lecture will be held the following evening in which her sister, Neurobiologist Nancy Wexler, discussese her discovery of the gene for Huntington's and research the search for a cure. A Reception will precede the lecture at 4:30pm outside the Retama Auditorium. Alice Wexler's lecture is jointly sponsored by the UTSA Neurosciences Institute, The American Studies Program, & Honors College. For more information, see http://neuroscience.utsa.edu |
| Contact | Quraishi, Salma |
| Contact Number | 210-458-7493 |
| Host | UTSA Neurosciences Institute |
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