Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Nigeria’s dangerous skin whitening obsession   Al Jazeera 2013-04-06 Mohammed Adow Nigeria has the world’s highest percentage of women using skin lightening agents in the quest for “beauty”. Lagos, Nigeria – After carefully washing her face, legs and arms, Taiwo Solomon vigorously rubs cream over her body. She is meticulous and makes sure she covers…

  • The Genomic Revolution and Beliefs about Essential Racial Differences: A Backdoor to Eugenics? American Sociological Review Volume 78, Number 2 (April 2013) pages 167-191 DOI: 10.1177/0003122413476034 Jo C. Phelan,  Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University Bruce G. Link, Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry) Mailman School of Public…

  • Will Personalized Medicine Challenge or Reify Categories of Race and Ethnicity? Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Volume 14, Number 8 (August 2012) pages 657-663 Ramya Rajagopalan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Joan H. Fujimura, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology; Professor of Science and Technology Studies Robert F.…

  • The question of race is, at its core, a questioning of humanity itself.  In various eras and locales, race has been marked by color of skin, texture of hair, dress, musical prowess, digital dexterity, rote memorization, mien, mannerisms, disease, athletic ability, capacity to write poetry, sense of rhythm, sobriety, childlike cheerfulness, animal anger, language, continent…

  • “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century,” talk by Dorothy Roberts University of Michigan Hatcher Library Gallery, Room 100 913 S. University Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan 2013-04-04, 16:00-17:30 CDT (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…

  • Book Review: Race in a Bottle GeneWatch Council for Responsible Genetics Volume 26 Issue 1, March 2013 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University In Race in a Bottle, Jonathan Kahn tracks the contentious history of BiDil, the first drug targeted specifically to African…

  • In conclusion, based on a consecutive series of patients from an urban medical center in New York City we demonstrate that a spectrum of mixed ancestry is emerging in the largest US minority groups. While consistent with previous descriptive studies, when viewed from the clinical perspective this evidence invites a re-evaluation of the relevance of…

  • Genetic Background of Patients from a University Medical Center in Manhattan: Implications for Personalized Medicine PLoS ONE: A peer-reviewed, open access journal Volume 6, Number 5 (2011-05-04) 11 pages DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019166 Bamidele O. Tayo Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois Marie Teil Charles R. Bronfman Institute…

  • Race in Contemporary Medicine Routledge 2007 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-41365-7 Edited by: Sander L. Gilman With the first patent being granted to “BiDil,” a combined medication that is deemed to be most effective for a specific “race,” African-Americans for a specific form of heart failure, the on-going debate about the effect of the older…

  • Black and Blue: The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism by John Hoberman [Matt Wood Review] TriQuarterly: a journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry from Northwestern University 2013-02-04 Matt Wood, Book Review Editor We’ve heard the statistics on black and white mortality rates in the United States. Black infants are up to three times…