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A fat lot of good

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Zoologist Caroline Pond remains little known despite being credited with changing thinking on adipose tissue, but she has not abandoned her aim of halting the division of biology into the cellular and molecular biology camp on the one hand and the ecology and behaviour camp on the other. Pond has worked largely on her own since starting research into adipose tissue at the Open University in 1982. She came to the conclusion that adipose tissue, the most abundant tissue in the body, merited some attention while teaching gross anatomy in the veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania.

Zoologists, Pond, Caroline

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A type who's not for casting

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The British Society for the History of Science President Ludmilla Jordanova acknowledges women can have a difficult time being accepted in academic institutions. Jordanova is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, England. She wants to show how the history of different scientific disciplines has connections and tries hard to make her subject interesting for her students. She is interested in the history of gender, art and medicine. She is researching the life and work of Richard Mead. Jordanova is the first female President of the British Society for 51 years.

College teachers, College faculty, Historians, Jordanova, Ludmilla

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In and out of this world

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Professor Donna Haraway of the University of California, Santa Cruz, uses humour and lively texts to put forward her views on technoscience. Haraway focuses on pertinent issues such as militarization and genetic engineering. She defines her work as 'experimental critical fiction' and she claims to carefully construct her words so as to portray the right image. Critics claim her works are unique and should not be copied. Haraway first received international attention in 1985 for her work A Manifesto for Cyborgs.

Criticism and interpretation, Women writers, Women authors, Haraway, Donna

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