Brad Bolman - "Lab Dog" - Emily Kern

Brad Bolman will discuss Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles. He will be joined in conversation by Emily Kern. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. 

At the Co-op.

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About the Book

In Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles, historian Brad Bolman explains how the laboratory dog became a subject of intense focus for twentieth-century scientists and charts the beagle’s surprising trajectory through global science. Following beagles as they moved from eugenics to radiobiology, pharmaceutical testing to Alzheimer’s studies, Lab Dog sheds new light on pivotal stories of twentieth-century science, including the Manhattan Project, tobacco controversies, contraceptive testing, and behavioral genetics research. The book also offers a glimpse into the future of animal experimentation, one in which dogs are increasingly replaced by other species, as well as non-animal alternatives. Compelling and accessible, Lab Dog tells the thorny story of the beagle’s participation in science, both its sacrifice and its contribution.

About the Author

Brad Bolman is a Member in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. His research explores the history of science, technology, and medicine. His next book, Rotten Beauty, is a history of mycology and the human relationship with fungi.

About the Interlocutor

Emily Kern is Assistant Professor of the History of Science and the College at the University of Chicago. Her book project, The Cradle of Humanity: Science and the Making of African Origins, explores how the African continent became the “cradle of humankind” and the pre-eminent site for human evolutionary research that it is today.