Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Will Precision Medicine Move Us beyond Race? The New England Journal of Medicine 2016-05-26 (Volume 374, Number 21) DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1511294 Vence L. Bonham, J.D., Senior Advisor to the NHGRI Director on Genomics and Health Disparities National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland Shawneequa L. Callier, J.D., Professorial Lecturer in Law Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Charmaine…

  • A DNA Test Won’t Explain Elizabeth Warren’s Ancestry Slate 2016-06-29 Matt Miller You’re not 28 percent Finnish, either. Our genes dictate certain things about us, but ethnicity is not derived from a single gene. Scott Brown, the former Massachusetts senator who lost to Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 election, has decided to dredge up old…

  • Future Humans Will All Look Brazilian, Researcher Says Business Insider 2012-09-19 Natalie Wolchover It really happened: Six generations of inbreeding spanning the years 1800 to 1960 caused an isolated population of humans living in the hills of Kentucky to become blue-skinned. The startlingly blue people, all descendants of a French immigrant named Martin Fugate and…

  • Beauty and the Bleach: This Issue is More than Skin Deep Ebony 2016-06-20 Yaba Blay, Dan Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science North Carolina Central University Skin bleaching is a billion-dollar industry. Considering its global reach, Dr. Yaba Blay says we have to stop treating bleaching as just a matter of self-hate. Over the past…

  • Another Health Funder That’s Focused on Race in a Big Way Inside Philanthropy 2016-06-16 Rob McCarthy The racial dimension of health equity has long preoccupied top funders in the healthcare space and it’s not hard to see why. Spend five minutes looking at health data for the United States and you’ll be blown away by…

  • The Myth of Race: The Troubling and Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman (review) Journal of Social History Volume 49, Number 3, Spring 2016 pages 740-741 Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and Professor of History and Sociology George Washington University The Myth of Race: The Troubling and…

  • The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Mesolevel Political Economic Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/2332649215626936 Abigail A. Sewell, Assistant Professor of Sociology Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia The author makes the argument that many racial disparities in health are rooted in political economic processes that…

  • This book investigates how racism makes genomics and how genomics makes racism and ‘race,’ and the consequences of these constructions. Specifically, Williams explores how racial ideology works in genomics.

  • Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community University of Washington Press June 2016 176 pages 1 bandw illus, 2 tables 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9780295998503 Hardcover ISBN: 9780295998077 Andrew J. Jolivette, Professor and chair of American Indian studies San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California The first book to…

  • Race Delusion: Lies That Divide Us The Huffington Post 2016-06-01 Robert J. Benz, Founder & Executive VP Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives David Livingstone Smith is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of London, Kings College, where he worked on Freud’s philosophy…