Michelle Murphy

Michelle Murphy (born 1969) is a Canadian academic. She is a professor of history and women and gender studies at the University of Toronto and director of the Technoscience Research Unit.

Murphy is well known for her work on regimes of imperceptibility, the ways in which different forms of knowledge become visible or invisible in the scientific community and broader society. Murphy has published several books, including ''Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers'' (2006) which won the Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science, ''Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience'' (2012), and ''The Economization of Life'' (2017). Provided by Wikipedia