Fatal Invention: Race and SciencePosted in Audio, Health/Medicine/Genetics, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, United States on 2011-09-13 21:28Z by Steven |
Fatal Invention: Race and Science
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
Monday, 2011-08-15
Brian Lehrer, Host
Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights
University of Pennsylvania
Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis professor and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, and author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Re-create Race In the Twenty-First Century, discusses how the findings of the Human Genome Project a decade ago stands in contrast to racial definitions in medicine and technology.
Download the audio here (00:13:04).