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GSBI - Geoffrey Bowker Bio

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Geoffrey Bowker
Executive Director, Center for Science, Technology, & Society
Regis & Dianne McKenna Professor of Communications

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Executive Director, Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University. He has written with Leigh Star a book on the history and sociology of medical classifications (Sorting Things Out: Classification and Practice - published by MIT Press in September 1999). This book looks at the classification of nursing work, diseases, viruses, and race.

His recent book, entitled Memory Practices in the Sciences, is about formal and informal recordkeeping in science over the past two hundred years, which includes extensive discussion of biodiversity informatics, was published by MIT Press in 2006. More information, including a number of publications and links to current research can be found at his website: http://epl.scu.edu/~gbowker
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