2. PUBLIC HEALTH

Strengths: ideal site of visibility of intersection between notions of “science” and “politics”, public health as a site of socio-political regulation, public health also a site of divergent causality
Weaknesses:
Gaps:

a. DISEASE DISCOURSE, MODELS AND APPLICATIONS (FEMINIST SCIENCE STUDIES)
Gaps: contextualize public health construction of bodies in a globally transnational economic and socio-political context
Interrogative trajectory: How can we understand how the health of bodies and its regulation are constructed in the current context (of DHHS-DOD/DHS merge)?

b. GENDER, POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY/IMPERIAL PRESENT (FEMINIST TRANSNATIONAL THEORY AND POSTCOLONIAL THEORY)
Gaps: connect work on systemic institutions of public health by feminist transnational theorists (which is the section of feminist theory that has battled the Eurocentrism and disciplinary narrowness of many sections of feminist theory, and tends to focus on only the most obviously relevant aspects of science/technology that relate to women, such as reproduction) and postcolonial theorists (which tends to ignore gender)
Interrogative trajectory: How can we understand the role of Public Health emerging in relation to National Security and its role in past colonial/ current imperial contexts?