Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • What I’ve learned from living with HIV The Melissa Harris-Perry Blog 2012-07-01 Macalester College Ed. note: This is a guest column by our guest today, Christopher MacDonald-Dennis, the Dean of Multicultural Life at Macalester College. Chris normally tweets this essay out every December 1 to commemorate World AIDS Day, but was kind enough to allow…

  • Drawing on data from assisted reproduction, transnational adoption, mixed race families, Basque identity politics and post-Soviet nation-building, this volume provides new and challenging ways to understand race, ethnicity and nation.

  • What DNA Says About Human Ancestry—and Bigotry The Village Voice 1997-10-28 pages 34-35 Mark Schoofs, Senior Editor ProPublica Race and genetics form their own double helix, twisting together through history. The Nazis, as everyone knows, justified the death camps on the grounds that Jews and Gypsies were genetically inferior—but what is less known is that…

  • Mixed race: Fastest growing demographic in Canada The Province Vancouver, British Columbia 2012-06-24 Sam Cooper …And the hardest in the world to find a match for blood cells; one in millions, literally Brutal. Intensive. Without hope. Those are words that just don’t translate when you hear the voice of 14-year-old Lourdess Sumners, of Duncan. She’s…

  • Bodies with Histories: The New Search for the Biology of Race Boston Review May/June 2012 Anne Fausto-Sterling Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Biochemistry, Program in Women’s Studies, and Chair of the Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Richard C. Francis, Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance. W.…

  • The Problem of Race in Medicine Philosophy of the Social Sciences Volume 31, Number 1 (March 2001) pages 20-39 DOI: 10.1177/004839310103100102 Michael Root, Professor of Philosophy University of Minnesota The biomedical sciences employ race as a descriptive and analytic category. They use race to describe differences in rates of morbidity and mortality and to explain…

  • Race Finished: Book Review American Scientist April-May, 2012 Jan Sapp, Professor of Biology and History York University, Toronto Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth. Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle. xviii + 226 pp. Texas A&M University Press, 2011. Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture. Edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan. xiv +…

  • In this intriguing and highly accessible book, physical anthropologist Ian Tattersall and geneticist Rob DeSalle, both senior scholars from the American Museum of Natural History, explain what human races actually are—and are not—and place them within the wider perspective of natural diversity.

  • The Biologistical Construction of Race: ‘Admixture’ Technology and the New Genetic Medicine Social Studies of Science Volume 38, Number 5 (2008) pages 695-735 DOI: 10.1177/0306312708090796 Duana Fullwiley, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the use of race in two…

  • Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture Columbia University Press September 2011 304 pages 1 illus; 4 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-15697-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-15696-7 Edited by: Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning; Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine Tufts School of Medicine Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Kathleen…