Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Four Simple Reasons Smart People Shouldn’t Believe in Races Psychology Today About Thinking: Questioning everything with a hopeful skeptic 2013-12-23 Guy P. Harrison Today is a good day to wake up and join the human species. Guess what I do almost every time race and racism are discussed in popular culture. I groan and turn…

  • Science in support of racial mixture: Charles-Augustin Vandermonde’s Enlightenment program for improving the health and beauty of the human species Endeavor Available online 2013-12-25 (Corrected Proof) DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2013.11.001 Clara Pinto-Correia Instituto de Investigação Científica Bento da Rocha Cabral, Lisboa, Portugal Centro de Estudos de História e Filosofia das Ciências, Évora, Portugal João Lourenço Monteiro Departamento…

  • Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age by Jonathan Kahn (review) Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 87, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 708-709 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2013.0067 Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Jonatha Kahn, Race in a…

  • A Study of Tri-Racial Isolates in Eastern United States Human Heredity Volume 6, Number 3, 1956/1957 DOI: 10.1159/000150862 pages 410–412 C. J. Witkop National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. There are known to exist in the eastern part of…

  • Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to the Genomic Age with Prof. Dorothy Roberts Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Brown University Steven Robert ’62  Campus Center, Petteruti Lounge 75 Waterman Street Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Tuesday, 2013-12-10, 17:30 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law…

  • Patterns of self-harm and attempted suicide among white and black/mixed race female prisoners Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health Volume 13, Issue 4 (November 2003) pages 229–240 DOI: 10.1002/cbm.549 Jo Borrill Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine University of London Rachel Burnett Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial…

  • Race in Biological and Biomedical Research Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine Volume 3, Issue 11 (November 2013) 10 pages DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a008573 Richard S. Cooper, Anthony B. Traub Professor of Community and Family Medicine Loyola University Medical School The concept of race has had a significant influence on research in human biology since the early…

  • Who gets the last laugh, again? Africa is a Country 2013-11-18 Jessica Blatt, Assistant Professor of Political Science Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York I enjoy seeing a smug, bearded white supremacist get his comeuppance as much as the next guy. (Though the joy of the exuberant lady sitting next to this one is…

  • Race and Medicine Princeton University AAS 403 / ANT 403 (EM) Spring 2013-2014 Carolyn M. Rouse, Professor of Anthropology In 1998, then-President Clinton set a national goal that by the year 2010 race, ethnic, and gender disparities in six disease categories would be eliminated. While the agenda, called Healthy People 2010, was a noble effort,…

  • The spectre of race in American medicine Medical Humanities Volume 32, Issue 2 (2013) pages 137-141 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2013-010374 Mariam O. Fofana Department of Epidemiology; Medical Scientist Training Program Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health / Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Controversies and debates surrounding race have long been a fixture in American medicine. In the…