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  • Is It Time To Stop Using Race In Medical Research?

    Is It Time To Stop Using Race In Medical Research? Shots: Health News from NPR National Public Radio 2016-02-05 Angus Chen Genetics researchers often discover certain snips and pieces of the human genome that are important for health and development, such as the genetic mutations that cause cystic fibrosis or sickle cell anemia. And scientists…

  • Taking race out of human genetics

    Taking race out of human genetics Science Volume 351, Issue 6273 (2016-02-05) pages 564-565 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4951 Michael Yudell, Associate Professor Dornsife School of Public Health Department of Community Health and Prevention Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander…

  • Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health

    Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Bethesda, Maryland 2015-05-08, 14:00 EDT (Local Time) The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research will host the Panel Discussion: Social Inequalities in Health, on May 8, 2015, at the NIH Campus, as part of the…

  • Author Meets Reader: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts

    Author Meets Reader: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts University of California, Irvine School of Law 401 E. Peltason Drive Irvine, California Room 3500 Monday, 2015-11-02, 18:30 PST (Local Time) Sponsored by the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and the Center on…

  • Penn Lightbulb Café Presents ‘Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in Genomic Era’

    Penn Lightbulb Café Presents ‘Fatal Invention: Re-creating Race in Genomic Era’ World Cafe Live Upstairs 3025 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Tuesday, September 15, 18:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor; George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, Professor of…

  • IRRPP Annual Bowman Lecture: Fatal Invention: Why The Politics of Race and Science Still Matters

    IRRPP Annual Bowman Lecture: Fatal Invention: Why The Politics of Race and Science Still Matters Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy University of Illinois, Chicago Student Center East 750 S. Halsted St, Room 302 Chicago, Illinois 2015-03-12, 16:00 CDT (Local Time) Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law and Sociology University of Pennsylvania Co-sponsors: Medical…

  • Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race

    Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race University of California, Los Angeles School of Law 385 Charles E. Young Drive East 1242 Law Building Los Angeles, California 90095 2015-02-19, 17:00-18:30 PST (Local Time) Room: TBD Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…

  • Dorothy Roberts: Bringing Different Perspectives into Class

    Dorothy Roberts: Bringing Different Perspectives into Class University of Pennsylvania Multimedia 2015-02-12 When Dorothy Roberts was 3 months old, she moved with her parents from Chicago to Liberia, where her mother, Iris, had worked as a young woman after leaving Jamaica. It was the first of Dorothy’s many trips abroad, and one during which her…

  • Penn PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts to Receive APA’s 2015 Fuller Award

    Penn PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts to Receive APA’s 2015 Fuller Award Penn News University of Pennsylvania 2015-01-23 Jacquie Posey, Media Contact Telephone: 215-898-6460 The American Psychiatric Association has named University of Pennsylvania professor Dorothy Roberts recipient of the 2015 Solomon Carter Fuller Award in recognition of her demonstrated leadership and exceptional achievements. The award honors…

  • The Dubious, Dangerous Science of Race Lives On, Says Scholar

    The Dubious, Dangerous Science of Race Lives On, Says Scholar Colorlines: News for Action 2011-09-23 Julianne Hing, Reporter/Blogger Oakland, California Back in the 19th century, scientists thought it was possible to determine a person’s race, and their corresponding levels of intelligence, based on the size of their skull. In the 20th century, mainstream scientists were…