Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Genomics and Health Care Disparities: The Role of Statistical Discrimination The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 308, Number 19 (2012-11-21) pages 1979-1980 DOI: 10.1001/2012.jama.10820 Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, Professor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Ten years ago, 2 events occurred that have transformed biomedical research. In 2001, the draft sequence…

  • The concept and measurement of race and their relationship to public health: a review focused on Brazil and the United States Cadernos de Saúde Pública/Reports in Public Health Volume 20, Number 3, Rio de Janeiro, (May/June 2004) pages 660-678 DOI: 10.1590/S0102-311X2004000300003 Claudia Travassos Departamento de Informações em Saúde Centro de Informação Científica e Tecnológica, Fundação…

  • Biology, race and politics explored in upcoming Chancellor’s Lecture Vanderbilt News Vanderbilt University 2012-10-10 Kara Furlong Is race a biological category written in our genes? Or are genomic scientists and biomedical researchers mistakenly using race to explain away health disparities among different population groups?   Dorothy Roberts, the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University…

  • Dorothy E. Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race [Vanderbilt University Lecture] Vanderbilt News Vanderbilt University 2012-10-30 Watch video of Dorothy E. Roberts—recently named Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania—presenting “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” based on her latest book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create…

  • The Philosophy of Race Routledge 2011-12-14 1,584 pages Hardback: 978-0-415-49602-5 Edited by: Paul Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy; African American Studies Pennsylvania State University Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the…

  • Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity, and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy American Journal of Public Health Volume 91, Number 7 (July 2001) pages 1049-1056 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.91.7.1049 Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently recommended that the National Institutes of Health…

  • What is most disturbing about the paradoxical use of race is the effect it may have on the trajectory of ongoing human genetic variation research. By making the moral argument that race-based therapeutics address injustice in health care, and at the same time maintaining that genetics research will ultimately eliminate the need for racial categories,…

  • Racializing Drug Design: Implications of Pharmacogenomics for Health Disparities American Journal of Public Health Volume 95, Number 12 (December 2005) pages 2133-2138 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.068676 Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Senior Research Scholar Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics Stanford University Current practices of using “race” in pharmacogenomics research demands consideration of the ethical and social implications for understandings…

  • MSU scholar says medical recommendations should go beyond race Michigan State University News 2012-10-23 Andy McGlashen, Media Communications Sean Valles, assistant professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Philosophy, says race-based medical advice is often misleading and harmful. Photo by G.L. Kohuth. EAST LANSING, Mich. — Medical organizations that make race-based recommendations are…

  • Should people’s ethnicity matter in their medical treatment? OnCentral Southern California Public Radio 2012-10-24 José Martinez Chances are, medical research has found that your ethnicity makes you more likely to have certain conditions or diseases. For Latinos, it’s diabetes. For black folks, it’s high blood pressure. For white people, it’s cystic fibrosis. For Asian women,…