Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • ‘The offspring of infidelity’: Polygenesis and the defense of slavery Emory University 2008 506 pages Publication Number: AAT 3332327 ISBN: 9780549849544 Christopher Luse, Instructional Assistant Professor of History University of Mississippi This dissertation examines an internal debate within the antebellum South over the nature of slavery and race. Focusing on the printed materials of the…

  • Toward a Racial Abyss: Eugenics, Wickliffe Draper, and the Origins of the Pioneer Fund Journal of History of the Behavioral Sciences Volume 38, Issue 3, (Summer 2002) pages 259–283 DOI: 10:1002/jhbs.10063 Michael G. Kenny, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia The Pioneer Fund was created in 1937 “to conduct or…

  • Editorial: Implications of racial distinctions for body composition and its diagnostic assessment American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Volume 71, Number 6 (June 2000) pages 1387-1389 Print ISSN: 0002-9165; Online ISSN: 1938-3207 Noel W. Solomons, Scientific Director and co-Founder Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM) Shiriki Kumanyika, Professor of Epidemiology University of…

  • Reliability of race assessment based on the race of the ascendants: a cross-sectional study BMC Public Health Volume 2, Number 1 (2002-01-16) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-2-1 5 pages Sandra C. Fuchs Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Sylvia M. Guimarães Department of Internal Medicine,…

  • Y-STR diversity and ethnic admixture in White and Mulatto Brazilian population samples Genetics and Molecular Biology (Former title: Brazilian Journal of Genetics) Volume 29, Number 4 (São Paulo  2006) pages 605-607 DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572006000400004 ISSN 1415-4757 Luzitano Brandão Ferreira Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil…

  • Racial inequalities and perinatal health in the southeast region of Brazil Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research Volume 40, Number 9 (September 2007) pages 1187-1194 DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2006005000144 ISSN 1678-4510 L. M. Silva Departamento de Saúde Pública Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, MA, Brasil R. A. Silva Departamento de Saúde Pública Universidade Federal do…

  • The Morbid Proclivities and Retrogressive Tendencies in the Offspring of Mulattoes The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 20, Number 1 (1893-01-07) pages 1-2 DOI: 10.1001/jama.1893.02420280009001 W. A. Dixon, M.D. Read in the Section of Diseases of Children, at the Forty-third Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Detroit, Mich., June 7,…

  • How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality American Journal of Physical Anthropology Special Issue: Race Reconciled: How Biological Anthropologists View Human Variation Volume 139, Issue 1 (May 2009) pages 47–57 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20983 Clarence C. Gravlee, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Florida, Gainesville The current debate over racial inequalities in health is arguably the…

  • Note on the Skin-Colour of the Crosses Between Negro and White Biometrika Volume 6, Number 4 (March 1909) pages 348-353 DOI: 10.1093/biomet/6.4.348 Karl Pearson (1857-1936), F.R.S. Those who feel compelled at present to hold their final judgment with regard to Mendelism in suspense, who do not think the statistical proof of its generality by any…

  • Afro-Saxon psychosis or cultural schizophrenia in African-Caribbeans? The Psychiatrist Volume 24, Issue 3 (2000) pages 96-97 DOI: 10.1192/pb.24.3.96 Hari D. Maharajh, Psychiatric Hospital Director St Ann’s Hospital, Trinidad, West Indies “Everybody in Miguel Street said that Man-man was mad, and so they left him alone, but I am not sure now that he was mad…