Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Implications of Genetic Diversity in Mexico Biopolitical Times Center for Genetics and Society 2014-06-25 Pete Shanks The category Latino is a valid cultural artifact, and often self-identified. But it’s not really a race in any modern sense of the term, and the genetic evidence surely shows that it is far too broad a grouping to…

  • Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation University of North Carolina Press May 2009 328 pages 36 illus., 5 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8078-5934-6 Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr., Associate Professor of History; Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York For most of the first half…

  • People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity Science 2014-06-12 Lizzie Wade, Latin America Correspondent Imagine if people from Kansas and California were as genetically distinct from each other as someone from Germany is from someone from Japan. That’s the kind of remarkable genetic variation that scientists have now found within Mexico, thanks to…

  • Self-reported pigmentary phenotypes and race are significant but incomplete predictors of Fitzpatrick skin phototype in an ethnically diverse population Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology Available online: 2014-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2014.05.023 Steven Y. He, BS Department of Dermatology University of California, San Francisco Charles E. McCulloch, PhD Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of California,…

  • Race: A Starting Place Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 16, Number 6 (June 2014) pages 472-478 Brooke A. Cunningham, MD, PhD Health status, access to and quality of care, and numerous social factors associated with health vary across racial groups. Many applaud the collection and use of race data to identify…

  • The Color Of Health: Skin Color, Ethnoracial Classification, And Discrimination In The Health Of Latin Americans Social Science & Medicine Available online: 2014-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.05.054 Krista M. Perreira, Professor of Public Policy and Associate Dean Office for Undergraduate Research University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University, Princeton, New…

  •   Things to Know When Talking About Race and Genetics Psychology Today 2014-05-13 Agustín Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology University of Notre Dame On May 5th, 2014, I shared the platform in a webinar debate with Nicholas Wade (former NYTimes Science Writer) about his new book “A Troublesome Inheritance – A discussion on genes, race and…

  • Is Race/Ethnicity Related to Presence or Severity of Pain in Colorectal and Lung Cancer? Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Published online: 2014-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.02.005 Kathryn A. Martinez, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow CanSORT (Cancer Surveillance & Outcomes Research Team) Ann Arbor VA Health Services Research & Development Center, University of Michgan, Ann Arbor Claire F.…

  • Abuse of Modernity: Japanese Biological Determinism and Identity Management in Colonial Korea Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review Number 10, March 2014 26 pages Mark Caprio Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan Medical researcher Kubo Takeshi’s contributions to professional publications, such as Chōsen igakkai zasshi (The Korean medical journal), and more popular magazines, such as…

  • Race Radiolab Season 5, Episode 3, April 2014 Shea Walsh This hour of Radiolab, a look at race. When the human genome was first fully mapped in 2000, Bill Clinton, Craig Venter, and Francis Collins took the stage and pronounced that “The concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis.” Great words spoken with…