Tag: Biopolitical Times

  • Implications of Genetic Diversity in Mexico Biopolitical Times Center for Genetics and Society 2014-06-25 Pete Shanks The category Latino is a valid cultural artifact, and often self-identified. But it’s not really a race in any modern sense of the term, and the genetic evidence surely shows that it is far too broad a grouping to…

  • Race-Based Medicine: Déjà Vu All Over Again? Biopolitical Times: The weblog of the Center for Genetics and Society 2012-09-18 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, San Francisco Also: Senior Fellow Center for Genetics and Society Race-based medicine has been one of the more contentious issues in pharmaceutical research and development over…

  • Slooooooow Sales for BiDil® Biopolitical Times: The weblog of the Center for Genetics and Society 2006-10-18 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, San Francisco Also: Senior Fellow Center for Genetics and Society Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that sales for BiDil®—the first drug to receive FDAapproval to treat a specific race—are…