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  • Status and Stress

    Status and Stress The New York Times 2013-07-27 Moises Velasquez-Manoff Although professionals may bemoan their long work hours and high-pressure careers, really, there’s stress, and then there’s Stress with a capital “S.” The former can be considered a manageable if unpleasant part of life; in the right amount, it may even strengthen one’s mettle. The…

  • Study explores race differences of lung cancer risk

    Study explores race differences of lung cancer risk Vanderbilt University Medical Center Reporter 2013-08-01 Mimi Eckhard Vanderbilt research scientist Melinda Aldrich, Ph.D., MPH, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Academic Career Award to investigate some of the genetic secrets behind a greater risk of lung cancer among African-Americans compared with other racial and…

  • Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World

    Medical Experimentation and Race in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World Social History of Medicine Volume 26, Issue 3 (August 2013) pages 364-382 DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkt011 Londa Schiebinger, The John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science Stanford University This article examines medical experimentation with humans in the Atlantic world. Physicians in this period tended to use bodies…

  • Taking race out of the equation in measuring women’s risk of osteoporosis and fractures

    Taking race out of the equation in measuring women’s risk of osteoporosis and fractures UCLA Newsroom University of California, Los Angeles 2012-10-18 Enrique Rivero For women of mixed racial or ethnic backgrounds, a new method for measuring bone health may improve the odds of correctly diagnosing their risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures, according to…

  • Fracture Risk Assessment without Race/Ethnicity Information

    Fracture Risk Assessment without Race/Ethnicity Information The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Volume 97, Number 10 (2012-10-01) pages 3593-3602 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-1997 Shinya Ishii Department of Geriatric Medicine (S.I.) Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Gail A. Greendale David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Jane A. Caule Graduate School of…

  • Racial profiling in medicine

    The field of human genetics is moving beyond using genomics as a tool for deeper understanding of human disease pathophysiology to the possibility of translating this knowledge for efficient treatment. A particular emphasis is being placed on Individualized medicine’, promising to tailor treatment based on each of our genomes. This ideal vision, however, can cause…

  • Heredity and Racial Science for Elementary and Secondary Schools (Erblehre und Rassenkunde für die Grund- und Hauptschule) 2nd edition

    Heredity and Racial Science for Elementary and Secondary Schools (Erblehre und Rassenkunde für die Grund- und Hauptschule) 2nd edition Verlag Konkordia Bühl-Baden, Germany 1937 Karl Bareth, Author Alfred Vogel, Author Source: German Propaganda Archive, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan Archived and Translated by: Randall Bytwerk, Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences Calvin College, Grand Rapids,…

  • Racial Discrimination in Medicine versus Race-Based Medicine: The Ethical, Legal and Policy Implications on Health Disparities

    Racial Discrimination in Medicine versus Race-Based Medicine: The Ethical, Legal and Policy Implications on Health Disparities Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2011) pages 59-86 Christopher Ogolla, LL.M., J.D., M.A., M.P.H., B.A., Academic Support Instructor Thurgood Marshall School of Law Texas Southern University This paper explores the…

  • Race Based Medication BiDil and African Americans

    Race Based Medication BiDil and African Americans New York University 2009-10-16 Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Ann Morning, Assistant Professor of Sociology, discusses race-based medications.

  • Professor Dorothy Roberts — Challenging Concepts of Race

    Professor Dorothy Roberts — Challenging Concepts of Race Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-06-26, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates…