I’ll be talking to students enrolled in a year-long, interdisciplinary course at UCLA, titled Biotechnology and Society about Mill Town, which is one of the required texts for their "epigenetics and environmental exposures" unit. This is a unit which includes earlier lectures on basics of epigenetics (critiques, debates, mechanistic details), food as exposure; microbiome research, bioethics and the politics of various interpretations of "cure" in scientific study of environmental exposures; and storytelling around environmental exposures. 

This 240-student course engages with controversial topics in current science through the lenses of biology, gender and sexuality studies and food studies, anthropology, sociology and public policy. We think that your book will be an incredible addition to the course, and truly embodies the interdisciplinary dimensions of environmental storytelling, and debates within science, technology and society we are trying instill in our students, who are primarily pre-science.