Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • What ‘biological racial realism’ should mean Philosophical Studies June 2012, Volume 159, Issue 2 pages 181-204 DOI: 10.1007/s11098-011-9697-2 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania A curious ambiguity has arisen in the race debate in recent years. That ambiguity is what is actually meant by ‘biological racial realism’. Some philosophers mean that ‘race…

  • Catherine Bliss Examines Race and Science in the Post-Genomic World Science of Caring: A Publication of the UCSF School of Nursing University of California, San Francisco December 2015 Diana Austin Catherine Bliss (photo by Elisabeth Fall) When Catherine Bliss, assistant professor in the UC San Francisco School of Nursing Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,…

  • Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Bethesda, Maryland 2015-05-08, 14:00 EDT (Local Time) The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research will host the Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health, on May 8, 2015, at the NIH Campus, as part of the…

  • Biological races in humans Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Volume 44, Issue 3, September 2013 Pages 262–271 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.04.010 Alan R. Templeton, Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology Emeritus Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Highlights Races are highly genetically…

  • Why Your Race Isn’t Genetic Pacific Standard 2014-05-30 Michael White, Assistant Professor of Genetics Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri DNA doesn’t determine race. Society does. If you glanced around the room at a conference of geneticists, it would be easy to guess where in the world all the attendees’ ancestors came from.…

  • Carolyn Abraham explores the stunning power and ethical pitfalls of using genetic tests to answer questions of genealogy—by cracking the genome of her own family.

  • Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Cambridge University Press January 2015 Paperback ISBN: 9780521154260 Edited by: Karim Murji, Senior Lecturer in Sociology The Open University, United Kingdom John Solomos, Professor of Sociology University of Warwick, United Kingdom How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades…

  • Mariage et métissage dans les sociétés coloniales: Amériques, Afrique et Iles de l’Océan Indien (XVIe–XXe–siècles) (Marriage and misgeneration [miscegenation?] in colonial societies: Americas, Africa and islands of the Indian ocean (XVIth–XXth centuries)) Peter Lang 2015 357 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0343-1605-7 DOI: 10.3726/978-3-0352-0295-3 Edited by: Guy Brunet, Vice President Société de Démographie Historique, Paris, France also:…

  • People Of Color With Albinism Ask: Where Do I Belong? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-12-07 Anjuli Sastry Growing up, Natalie Devora always questioned how she fit into her African-American family. “Everyone was brown, and then there was me,” Devora says. “I’m a white-skinned black woman. That’s how I…

  • Agriculture Linked to DNA Changes in Ancient Europe The New York Times 2015-11-23 Carl Zimmer The agricultural revolution was one of the most profound events in human history, leading to the rise of modern civilization. Now, in the first study of its kind, an international team of scientists has found that after agriculture arrived in…