Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Brazilian Miscegenation: Disease as Social Metaphor 2012 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association San Francisco, California May 23-26, 2012 23 pages Okezi T. Otovo, Assistant Professor of History University of Vermont Brazilian medicine of the 19th and early 20th centuries had a peculiar cultural relationship to disease. Certain debates consistently recurred as disease experts…

  • Sequencing the Trellis: The Production of Race in the New Human Genomics Brown University December 2003 185 pages Brady Dunklee, Executive Director ATRAVES US In partial completion of the requirements for honors. Note on the Title: “Trellis” refers to an analogy that NHGRI director Francis Collins uses to describe race and human evolution, emphasizing mixture…

  • Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007 250 pages Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Submitted to the Program in Science, Technology and Society In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the…

  • A Racialized Medical Genomics: Shiny, Bright and Wrong RACE-The Power of an Illusion July 2005 Robert Wallace, Postdoctoral Fellow Public Health Phylogeography Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Irvine Armand Marie Leroi announces in his Times op-ed that race is biologically real (New York Times, March 14, 2005). The crusty trope that…

  • “Racially-Tailored” Medicine Unraveled American University Law Review Volume 55, Number 2 (December 2005) pages 395-452 Sharona Hoffman, Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Associate Director of the Law-Medicine Center Case Western Reserve University School of Law Table of Contents Introduction I. “Race-Based” Research and Therapeutic Practices A. The Story of BiDil B. “Race-Based” Research…

  • English R1A: Keeping it Real?: Racial & Queer Passing in American Literature University of California, Berkeley Fall 2010 Rosa Marti­nez “I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.” —Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard This course intends to explore the “art” of racial passing and masquerade in American…

  • Winner of the 2014 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, sponsored by the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.

  • How Culture and Science Make Race “Genetic”: Motives and Strategies for Discrete Categorization of the Continuous and Heterogeneous Literature and Medicine Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 240–268 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2008.0000 Celeste Condit, Distinguished Research Professor University of Georgia Scientists, medical personnel, and others have recently re-asserted the equivalence of human genetic variation and social…

  • A Medical Humanities Perspective On Racial Borderlands Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog 2008-06-30 Felice Aull, Ph.D., M.A., Associate Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience; Editor in Chief, Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database New York University School of Medicine I have long been interested in the metaphor of borderlands as a tool for exploring areas of ambiguity…

  • Taking racism into account does not mean refusing to collect and classify data in medical research according to race and ethnicity. On the contrary, those classifications provide important epidemiological information, as Risch et al. maintain, about the impact of social and environmental factors—including socio-economic inequities and cultural biases—on the health of individuals and groups. As…