I am a historian of science, technology, and medicine.  My research explores the visual cultures of postwar genetics and biomedicine.  I examine the ways in which clinicians and researchers have come to see human diseases – and the human genome – in standardized ways.  Over the past 50 years, a large number of clinical disorders have been associated with specific human genes and genetic mutations.  I trace the development and growth of a technological system for seeing and locating the causes of disease in the human genome, through the visual analysis of chromosomes.   My ongoing book project, Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Seeing and Stabilizing Abnormality in Postwar Biomedicine, explores the various means by which humans have sought to control genetic diseases since the mid-20th century.  Postwar genetic medicine has been characterized in part by attempts to alter the clinical expression of disease.  As part of this, researchers have sought to identify genetic abnormalities and link them to specific diseases, allowing for earlier – and even prenatal – diagnosis.   My book traces the life histories of multiple disorders in order to examine how genetic abnormality has been seen, standardized, and taken advantage of since 1960.  Over the life history of a disease, its genetic markers circulate among many biomedical spaces, for the purposes of both diagnosis and knowledge production – extending far beyond any single disorder.  My project offers a view into how genetic material, first collected with a specific patient in mind, may contribute to basic research exploring human disease, difference, development, and evolution.  I examine how clinicians and researchers have sought to take control of genetic abnormality, not only to reshape the life histories of disease, but also to explore the genetic history of humans.  

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
University of Virginia, Department of Engineering & Society, Lecturer in Science, Technology & Society (2013-Present)

EDUCATION
Ph.D.  2013, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
M.A.   2011, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
B.S.    2007, Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Andrew J. Hogan, “Set Adrift in the Prenatal Diagnostic Marketplace: Analyzing the role of users and mediators in the history of a medical technology.” Technology and Culture 54, no. 1 (2013): 62-89.

Andrew J. Hogan, “Locating Genetic Disease: The impact of clinical nosology on biomedical conceptions of the human genome (1966-1990).” New Genetics and Society 32, no. 1 (2013): 78-96.

Andrew J. Hogan, “Visualizing Carrier Status: Fragile X syndrome and genetic diagnosis since the 1940s.” Endeavour 36, no. 2 (2012): 77-84.

BOOK REVIEWS
“Producers, Users, and the Actors Between.” Review Essay, Technology and Culture (Forthcoming).

Review of Alexandra Minna Stern, Telling Genes: The story of genetic counseling in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (Forthcoming).

TEACHING AREAS
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
History of Life Sciences and the Environment
Science, Technology & Society
Biomedical Ethics