Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Breast cancer and racialized medicine Race, Racism & Human Genetics IDS 243: Race, Racism, and Human Genetics Willamette University Salem, Oregon 2014-11-28 Stephanie Matsuura Katie Herr Camille Debreczeny Race, Racism & Human Genetics IDS 243: Race, Racism, and Human Genetics is an interdisciplinary course taught at Willamette University by Emily Drew and Chris Smith. This…

  • IDS 243 Race, Racism, & Human Genetics Willamette University Salem, Oregon Fall 2014 What accounts for human difference, and what does the biology of human variation tell us about race and the “life changes” of racial groups in contemporary society? This course examines the relationship between genes, geography, skin color and what we have come…

  • How Europeans evolved white skin Science 2015-04-02 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2435 Ann Gibbons, Contributing Correspondent ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI—Most of us think of Europe as the ancestral home of white people. But a new study shows that pale skin, as well as other traits such as tallness and the ability to digest milk as adults, arrived in most…

  • Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics by Lundy Braun (review) Configurations Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2015 pages 127-130 DOI: 10.1353/con.2015.0000 Lindsey Andrews, Visiting Scholar of English Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Braun, Lundy, Breathing Race into…

  • “General Heads,” Great Minds, and the Genesis of Scientific Racism Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Volume 15, Number 2, Spring 2015 pages 112-118 Robin Runia, Assistant Professor of English Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana It is commonly presum’d that the Heat of the Climate wherein they live, is the reason, why so…

  • Genetics: No evidence of role in racial mortality gap Science Daily: Your source for the latest research news 2015-03-16 There is still no evidence of genetic difference between blacks and whites to account for the health disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a new study by McGill University researchers. Published in the American Journal…

  • The Evolution of the Idea of Race: From Scientific Racism to Genomics Oxford University Press Webinar Oxford University Press Friday, 2015-03-20, 18:00-19:00Z, 14:00-15:00 EDT Join Oxford University Press on Friday, March 20th for a Webinar featuring Tanya Golash-Boza. Tanya Golash-Boza is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts at the…

  • The Contribution of Genomic Research to Explaining Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review American Journal of Epidemiology First Published online: 2015-03-01 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu319 Jay S. Kaufman, Professor Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Lena Dolman McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Dinela Rushani McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada…

  • A reconsideration of the role of self-identified races in epidemiology and biomedical research Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Available online: 2015-03-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.02.004 Ludovica Lorusso Department of Political Science, Communication, Engineering and Information Technologies University of Sassari, Italy Department of Philosophy…

  • IRRPP Annual Bowman Lecture: Fatal Invention: Why The Politics of Race and Science Still Matters Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy University of Illinois, Chicago Student Center East 750 S. Halsted St, Room 302 Chicago, Illinois 2015-03-12, 16:00 CDT (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law and Sociology University of Pennsylvania Co-sponsors: Medical…