Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Ethnicity and Stroke: Beware of the Fallacies Stroke Volume 31, Issue 5 (May 2000) pages 1013-1015 DOI: 10.1161/​01.STR.31.5.1013 Osvaldo Fustinoni, MD Departments of Neurology University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina José Biller, MD, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery Loyola University, Chicago The role of ethnicity in stroke has been the subject of a…

  • Against racial medicine Patterns of Prejudice Volume 40, Numbers 4/5 (2006), Special Issue: Race and Contemporary Medicine pages 481-493 DOI: 10.1080/00313220601020189 Joseph L. Graves Jr., Dean of University Studies; Professor of Biological Sciences North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro Michael R. Rose, Director of the University of California Network for Experimental Research on…

  • Blood and stories: how genomics is rewriting race, medicine and human history Patterns of Prejudice Volume 40, Numbers 4/5 (2006), Special Issue: Race and Contemporary Medicine pages 303-333 DOI: 10.1080/00313220601020064 Priscilla Wald, Professor of English and Women’s Studies Duke University In 2003 Howard University announced its intention to create a databank of the DNA of…

  • Finding a Match, and a Mission: Helping Blacks Survive Cancer The New York Times 2012-05-11 Donald G. McNeil, Jr. A month after his 2009 graduation from Yale Law School, Seun Adebiyi learned he had not one but two lethal blood cancers and began an odyssey to find a bone-marrow donor. Mr. Adebiyi, 28, who came…

  • Personalized pharmacogenomics aims to use individual genotypes to direct medical treatment. Unfortunately, the loci relevant for the pharmacokinetics and especially the pharmacodynamics of most drugs are still unknown.

  • Why genes don’t count (for racial differences in health) American Journal of Public Health Volume 90, Number 11 (November 2000) pages 1699-1702 DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.90.11.1699 Alan H. Goodman, Professor of Biological Anthropology Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts There is a paradoxical relationship between “race” and genetics. Whereas genetic data were first used to prove the validity of race,…

  • Twenty years ago it appeared that mainstream science finally was abandoning the concept of biological human races. From 18th century typologists to 20th century eugenicists, scientists have always been instrumental in justifying the myth that the human species is naturally divided by race.

  • A race-based detour to personalized medicine Canadian Medical Association Journal Volume 184, Number 7 (2012-03-12) DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.109-4133 Roger Collier, News Staff Few experts in medical genetics would argue that June 23, 2005 wasn’t an important day. Consensus on whether it was a good or bad day is another matter. Some claim a major step on…

  • A 30 Percent of Mixed Race Component in Argentina’s Population Agentina Investiga: Divulgación y Noticas Universitarias Universidad Maimónides Facultad de Ciencias Médicas 2012-04-09 Adrián Giacchino Departamento de Prensa Universidad Maimónides The research of a team formed by anthropologists, biologists, biochemists and archeologists proves that the autochthonous contribution in Argentina’s population might be of a 30%.…

  • In this article, my thesis is simple. If racial caste has been upended by changes in legal rules that created a hierarchical racial structure, its demise also has been hastened by the use of symbols, a strategy of cultural inversion with respect to the meaning of race.