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Rebecca J. Hester

Associate Professor

Virginia Tech

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Department of Science, Technology, and Society

Rebecca J. Hester is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts And Human Sciences Associate Professor at Virginia Tech.

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Rebecca J. Hester

Virginia Tech

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health sciences public health global health culture climate change medical education information security criminology medical ethics political economy international political economy african development adaptation legal medicine death studies criminal justice climate change adaptation thanatology philosophy of medicine medical learner correctional health care qualitative exploration academic medical center techno-security infrastructure informationalised biology carceral body somatic-security industrial complex informationalized biology scientific implications social medicine science and technology studies transhumanism bioethics biosecurity medical anthropology neuroethics medicalization biopolitics

Notable Scholarly Works

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Collaborators

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Address Climate Change Adaptation for Human Health and Well-Being in Africa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2021)

Caradee Yael WrightCandice Eleanor MooreMatthew ChersichRebecca HesterPatricia Nayna SchwerdtleGuy Kakumbi MbayoCharles Ndika AkongColin D. Butler

climate changepublic healthafrican developmentadaptationglobal healthclimate change adaptationhealth sciences

“It’s Like Heaven Over There”: Medicine as Discipline and the Production of the Carceral Body. Health & Justice (2020)

Jason E. GlennAlina M. BennettRebecca J. HesterNadeem N. TajuddinAhmar Hashmi

public healthphilosophy of medicinecarceral bodycriminal justicedeath studieslegal medicinecriminologythanatologymedicinemedical ethicshealth sciences

Qualitative Exploration of the Medical Learner’s Journey Into Correctional Health Care at an Academic Medical Center and Its Implications for Medical Education. Advances in Health Sciences Education (2020)

Ahmar H. HashmiAlina M. BennettNadeem N. TajuddinRebecca J. HesterJason E. Glenn

academic medical centercorrectional health caremedical educationmedical learnerqualitative explorationhealth sciences

BIOVEILLANCE: A Techno-Security Infrastructure to Preempt the Dangers of Informationalised Biology. Science as Culture (2019)

Rebecca J. Hester

cultureinformation securitytechno-security infrastructureinformationalised biology

The Somatic-Security Industrial Complex: Theorizing the Political Economy of Informationalized Biology. Review of International Political Economy (2019)

Rebecca J. HesterOwain David Williams

international political economysomatic-security industrial complexinformationalized biologypolitical economypolitical science

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Rebecca J. Hester

Associate Professor

Virginia Tech

Affiliations

College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Department of Science, Technology, and Society

Rebecca J. Hester is currently serving as a College Of Liberal Arts And Human Sciences Associate Professor at Virginia Tech.

Honors

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Rebecca J. Hester

Virginia Tech

Associate Professor

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Address Climate Change Adaptation for Human Health and Well-Being in Africa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2021)

Caradee Yael WrightCandice Eleanor MooreMatthew ChersichRebecca HesterPatricia Nayna SchwerdtleGuy Kakumbi MbayoCharles Ndika AkongColin D. Butler

climate changepublic healthafrican developmentadaptationglobal healthclimate change adaptationhealth sciences

“It’s Like Heaven Over There”: Medicine as Discipline and the Production of the Carceral Body. Health & Justice (2020)

Jason E. GlennAlina M. BennettRebecca J. HesterNadeem N. TajuddinAhmar Hashmi

public healthphilosophy of medicinecarceral bodycriminal justicedeath studieslegal medicinecriminologythanatologymedicinemedical ethicshealth sciences

Ahmar H. HashmiAlina M. BennettNadeem N. TajuddinRebecca J. HesterJason E. Glenn

academic medical centercorrectional health caremedical educationmedical learnerqualitative explorationhealth sciences

BIOVEILLANCE: A Techno-Security Infrastructure to Preempt the Dangers of Informationalised Biology. Science as Culture (2019)

Rebecca J. Hester

cultureinformation securitytechno-security infrastructureinformationalised biology

The Somatic-Security Industrial Complex: Theorizing the Political Economy of Informationalized Biology. Review of International Political Economy (2019)

Rebecca J. HesterOwain David Williams

international political economysomatic-security industrial complexinformationalized biologypolitical economypolitical science

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