Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • CFP: Deadline approaching – Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800-2000 workshop Humanities and Social Sciences Online 2016-09-12 Chiara Beccalossi Reminder – Proposals for the Race, Sex, and Reproduction in the Global South, c.1800-2000 workshop are due on 25 September 2016. Call for papers: Workshop: Race and Ethnicity in the Global South and the Sydney…

  • Meet the Man Who Proved That Discrimination Can Make You Physically Sick Colorlines 2016-09-13 Miriam Zoila Pérez Dr. David Williams pioneered three ways to prove the links between discrimination and poor health. An ever-growing body of research in the fields of public health, sociology and medicine is presenting a strong case for something you may personally know…

  • Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda on Racial Prescriptions Theory, Culture & Society 2015-12-22 Sibille Merz, Doctoral Researcher Goldsmiths, University of London Questioning Racial Prescriptions: An interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda Sibille Merz: Racial Prescriptions provides a timely, illuminating and theoretically-engaged analysis of the making of BiDil, the first (and only) drug that was marketed exclusively…

  • Eyes Wide Cut: The American Origins of Korea’s Plastic Surgery Craze The Wilson Quarterly Fall 2015 Laura Kurek South Korea’s obsession with cosmetic surgery can be traced back to an American doctor, raising uneasy questions about beauty standards. At sixteen stories high, the doctor’s office looms over the neon-colored metropolis. Within the high-rise, consultation offices,…

  • On Race and Medicine: Insider Perspectives ed. by Richard Garcia (review) American Studies Volume 55, Number 1, 2016 pages 163-164 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2016.0057 David Colón-Cabrera ON RACE AND MEDICINE: Insider Perspectives. Edited by Richard Garcia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2015. The fields of anthropology and sociology, in addition to health sciences, have problematized the topic…

  • The Misuse of Race in Medical Diagnosis Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics May 2004, Volume 113 / Issue 5 Richard S. Garcia I am a 39-year-old Hispanic male born in Stockton, Calif, to a mother who—after many years of unwise eating—has recently been diagnosed with diabetes and to a father I…

  • Health disparities exist between races in America. These inequalities are cataloged in numerous studies, reports, conferences, articles, seminars, and keynote speeches. Various studies include reports on income, health insurance, cultural differences between patients and their physicians, language barriers, and biological “racial” differences in the discourse of health disparities.

  • Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status Sociological Perspectives Volume 59, Number 3 (September 2016) pages 582-603 DOI: 10.1177/0731121415602133 Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Tony N. Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee The present study extends previous work on distress…

  • Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil Social Studies of Science Volume 45, Number 6 (December 2015) pages 816-838 DOI: 10.1177/0306312715610217 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Michael Kent, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology School of Social Sciences University of Manchester This article analyses interrelations between genetic ancestry…

  • This paper examines the scientific construction of racial differences through the lens of early twentieth-century bioanthropological studies of American Negro skeletal and living population samples.