Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Some Refelctions on Eugenics and Religion Eugenics Review Volume 18, Number 1 (April 1926) pages 7-14 The Right Rev. E. W. Barnes, ScD., Hon. D.D., F.R.S. (1874-1953) Bishop of Birmingham, England The Galton Lecture delivered before the Eugenics Education Society at their Meeting in London on Tuesday, February 16th, 1926. Eugenics is the science of…

  • The Estimation of Admixture in Racial Hybrids Annals of Human Genetics Volume 35, Issue 1 (July 1971) pages 9–17 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1956.tb01373.x Robert C. Elston, Professor & Chair, Distinguished University Professor Case Western Reserve University When a racial hybrid population has arisen from the intermarriage of two or more parental populations, a problem of interest is…

  • Race Categorization and the Regulation of Business and Science Law & Society Review Volume 44, Issue 3-4 (September/December 2010) pages 617–650 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2010.00418.x Catherine Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research Rutgers University John D. Skrentny, Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and Professor of Sociology University of…

  • Gene admixture in human populations: Models and predictions American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 29, Issue Supplement S7 (1986) pages 1–43 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330290502 Ranajit Chakraborty, Robert A. Kehoe Professor and Director of Center for Genome Information University of Cincinnati Brief accounts of methods for estimating proportions of admixture in populations and individuals of hybrid origin…

  • Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease Genome Biology 2002 Volume 3, Number 7 2002-07-01 Print ISSN 1465-6906; Online ISSN 1465-6914 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-7-comment2007 Neil Risch Department of Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California Esteban Burchard Department of Medicine University of California, San Francisco, California Elad Ziv Department of Medicine University…

  • Hybrids and History. The Role of Race and Ethnic Crossing in Individual and National Achievement The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 26, Number 4 (December, 1951) pages 331-347 George D. Snell (1903-1996) Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine It is curious to reflect that almost the requisite three or four hundred years have…

  • “Slippin’ Into Darkness”: The (Re)Biologization of Race Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 343-358 E-ISSN: 1096-8598 Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Michael Omi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley While the dominant mantra in humanities and the social sciences is that “race is a social construction, not a…

  • Selling eugenics: the case of Sweden Notes & Records of the Royal Society Volume 64, Number 4 pages 379-400 DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2010.0009 Maria Björkman Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Linköping University Sven Widmalm Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change Linköping University This paper traces the early (1910s to 1920s) development of…

  • Factors in the Microevolution of a Triracial Isolate American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 18, Number 1 (January 1966) pages 26-38 W. S. Pollitzer Department of Anatomy University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill R. M. Menegaz-Bock Genetics Training Committe University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill J. C. Herion Department of Medicine University of North Carolina,…

  • Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families: Development, Identity, and Resilience Xlibris 2010 384 pages ISBN 13 Softcover: 978-1-4500-1231-7 ISBN 13 Hardcover: 978-1-4500-1232-4 ISBN 13 Ebook: 978-1-4500-0340-7 Edited By: Hamilton McCubbin, Krystal Ontai, Lisa Kehl, Laurie McCubbin, Ida Strom, Heidi Hart, Barbara DeBaryshe, Marika Ripke and Jon Matsuoka Guided by the increasing number of interracial marriages, cross-cultural adoptions…