Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • The Mulatto a Hybrid-probable extermination of the two races if the Whites and Blacks are allowed to intermarry The American Journal of the Medical Sciences Volume 6, Issue 11 (July 1843) pages 252-256 Josiah C. Nott, M.D. Mobile, Alabama The reader will probably be astonished at this late clay to sec so novel an assertion…

  • Race and global patterns of phenotypic variation American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 139, Issue 1 (May 2009) Special Issue: Race Reconciled: How Biological Anthropologists View Human Variation pages 16–22 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20900 John H. Relethford, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology State University of New York, Oneonta Phenotypic traits have been used for centuries for the…

  • Racial Classification Regarding Semen Donor Selection in Brazil Developing World Bioethics Volume 7, Issue 2 (August 2007) pages 104–111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2007.00192.x Rosely Gomes Costa, Pós-doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (Espanha) Brazil has not yet approved legislation on assisted reproduction. For this reason, clinics, hospitals…

  • Interethnic diversity of NAT2 polymorphisms in Brazilian admixed populations BMC Genetics Volume 11, Number 1 (2010-10-05) pages 87-93 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-11-87 Jhimmy Talbot Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e Epidemiologia Molecular Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Luiz Alexandre V. Magno Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e Epidemiologia Molecular Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Cinthia VN Santana Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e…

  • Ancestry DNA and the Manipulation of Afro-Indian Identity Chapter in: The First and the Forced: Essays on the Native American and African American Experience 2007 285 pages University of Kansas, Hall Center for the Humanities Edited by James N. Leiker, Kim Warren, and Barbara Watkins Chapter pages: pages 141-155 Arica L. Coleman, Assistant Professor of…

  • Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama The Greenlining Institute Berkeley, California November 2011 26 pages Dr. Daniel Byrd, Research Director Bruce Mirken, Media Relations Coordinator Since the election of Barack Obama as the United States’ first African American president, there has been much discussion of whether this means the U.S. has become…

  • Panel to discuss racism and medical issues The Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2012-02-10 Ariana Ricarte The topic of racism in health care, genetics and other medical issues will be the central point of discussion at a panel in De Neve Auditorium on Saturday [13:00-15:00 PST]. The panel, called “Race in Medicine: A…

  • Use of Blood Groups in Human Classification Science Magazine Volume 112, Number 2903 (1950-08-18) pages 187-196 DOI: 10.1126/science.112.2903.187 William C. Boyd Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts —Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him! Plato, The Republic In recent…

  • Race mixture: a social or a biological problem? The Eugenics Review Volume 41, Number 2 (July 1949) pages 81-85 A. Dickinson The ideas of the layman on race are curiously distorted. Race is commonly identified with a given language or culture, with a group living in a common habitat or possessing a single characteristic feature…

  • With DNA Testing, Suddenly They Are Family The New York Times 2011-01-24 Rachel L. Swarns ST. LOUIS — Growing up, Khrys Vaughan always believed that she had inherited her looks and mannerisms from her father, and that her appreciation for tradition and old-fashioned gentility stemmed from her parents’ Southern roots. But those facets of her…