Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • From Medical Innovation to Sociopolitical Crisis: How Racialized Medicine Has Shifted the Scope of Racial Discourse and its Social Consequences Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut May 2013 51 pages Danielle Antonia Craig An essay submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental…

  • Ethnic minorities: defining ethnicity and race The Scottish Public Health Observatory Ethnic Minorities Last Updated: 2012-03-06 Ethnicity Ethnicity has been defined as: “the social group a person belongs to, and either identifies with or is identified with by others, as a result of a mix of cultural and other factors including language, diet, religion, ancestry…

  • Lung function, race and ethnicity: a conundrum European Respiratory Journal Volume 41, Number 6  (June 1, 2013) pages 1249-1250 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00053913 Philip H. Quanjer Deptartment of Pulmonary Diseases and Department of Paediatrics Erasmus Medical Centre Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands In this issue Braun et al. make a plea for an international workshop to review…

  • Defining race/ethnicity and explaining difference in research studies on lung function European Respiratory Journal Volume 41, Number 6  (June 1, 2013) pages 1362-1370 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00091612 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Melanie Wolfgang Brown University Kay Dickersin, Professor, Director, Center for Clinical Trials…

  • Winning the Race NYU Alumni Magazine Fall 2012 Andrea Crawford As the first African-American president runs for reelection, researchers examine the subliminal influence of political ads  In 1990, longtime North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms was trailing challenger Harvey Gantt, an African-American who supported affirmative action, when the Helms campaign produced the infamous “hands” commercial. As…

  • Race Is Not Biology The Atlantic 2013-05-23 Merlin Chowkwanyun Departments of History and Public Health University of Pennsylvania How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine’s Harvard doctoral dissertation, which speculated that IQ differences between “Hispanic” and…

  • The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project New York University Press May 2013 303 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814790687 Kelly E. Happe, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Women’s Studies University of Georgia In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a “draft” of the human genome,…

  • Race, Policy, and Culture: An Identity Crisis for Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil Melissa S. Creary, MPH, Doctoral Candidate Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts Emory University Professor Howard Kushner, Chair Professor Jeffrey Lesser, Co-Chair Abstract of Dissertation Prospectus In 2001, Cândida and Altair, a married couple, started a national organization to increase the rights of…

  • Race has become a prominent focus for human biotechnology. Despite often good intentions, genetic technologies are being applied in a manner that may provide new justification for thinking about racial difference and racial disparities in biological terms—as if social categories of race reflect natural or inherent group differences.

  • Age of First Cigarette, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use Among U.S. Biracial/Ethnic Youth: A Population-Based Study Addictive Behaviors Volume 38, Issue 9, September 2013 pages 2450–2454 DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.04.005 Trenette T. Clark, Associate Professor of Social Work University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Otima Doyle, Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Illinois, Chicago Amanda Clincy University…