Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • ‘We Are All the Same, We All Are Mestizos’: Imagined Populations and Nations in Genetics Research in Colombia Science as Culture Volume 23, Issue 2, 2014 pages 226-252 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.838214 María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Assistant Professor Department of Design University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Adriana Díaz Del Castillo Hernández, Independent Researcher Consultoría en Estudios…

  • Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics Current Anthropology Volume 55, Number 5 (October 2014) pages 497-522 DOI: 10.1086/677945 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Vivette García Deister, Associate Professor Social Studies of Science Laboratory National Autonomous University of Mexico Michael Kent, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology…

  • Towards a Biopolitics of Beauty: Eugenics, Aesthetic Hierarchies and Plastic Surgery in Brazil Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesia Volume 24, Issue 4, 2015 Special Issue: Visual Culture and Violence in Contemporary Mexico DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2015.1091296 Alvaro Jarrín, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts This article provides…

  • What Scientists Mean When They Say ‘Race’ Is Not Genetic The Huffington Post 2016-02-09 Jacqueline Howard, Senior Science Editor A new paper explains why it can be dangerous to think otherwise. If a team of scientists in Philadelphia and New York have their way, using race to categorize groups of people in biological and genetic…

  • In First for Sitting President, Obama Publishes a Scholarly Article Fortune 2016-07-11 Jeff John Roberts Call him scholar-in-chief An author named “Barack Obama, JD” published an article on Monday in a scholarly journal. No prizes for guessing the topic: It’s an assessment of the Affordable Care Act as well as policy recommendations for the next…

  • Is there a racial ‘care gap’ in medical treatment? PBS News Hour 2016-04-05 A new survey has found implicit biases in medical students that may explain why black patients are sometimes undertreated for pain, with some students believing that black people feel less pain and have thicker skin than white people. For more on the…

  • United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps The Journal of the American Medical Association Published online 2016-07-11 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.9797 Barack Obama, JD President of the United States, Washington, DC Importance The Affordable Care Act is the most important health care legislation enacted in the United States since the creation of Medicare…

  • Q&A with ‘Indian Blood’ author Andrew J. Jolivette University of Washington Press Blog 2016-06-24 In his new book Indian Blood: HIV & Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community, Andrew J. Jolivette examines the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, and provides an analysis of the emerging…

  • PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts exposes how the myth of biologically distinct races—forged in the era of slavery—continues to poison the present, affecting attitudes and policies on everything from child welfare to medical treatment.

  • Race and Medicine in America (AMST 256 – 01) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Fall 2016 Megan H. Glick, Assistant Professor of American Studies This course will trace ideas of race in American medical science and its cultural contexts, from the late 19th century to the present. We will explore how configurations of racial difference have…