Meadowarts’ House of Beasts

Joanna Latimer is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University School of Social Science and the ESRC Centre for the Social and Economic Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen). She has published widely on medicine, science, the body and culture, and contributed to publications at the cutting edge of social theory, including on the art of dwelling (Space and Culture) and a special issue of The Sociological Reviewentitled “The Politics of Imagination.” Her books include Un/knowing Bodies(Wiley-Blackwell) and The Gene, The Clinic and The Family: Diagnosing Dysmorphology, Reviving Medical Dominance (Routledge) is in press. She is editor of the Sociology of Health and Illness, and is in process of editing a special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on relationalities amongst different kinds. She is currently immersed in an ethnography of ageing and biology.