Tag: Catherine Bliss

  • Race has long been a potent way of defining differences between human beings. But science and the categories it constructs do not operate in a political vacuum.

  • Genetic Approaches to Health Disparities Chapter in Genetics, Health and Society (Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 16) (2014) pages 71-93 DOI: 10.1108/S1057-629020150000016003 Catherine Bliss, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, San Francisco Purpose This chapter explores the rise in genetic approaches to health disparities at the turn of the twenty-first century. Methodology/approach Analysis of…

  • The Marketization of Identity Politics Sociology Volume 47, Number 5 (October 2013) pages 1011-1025 DOI: 10.1177/0038038513495604 Catherine Bliss, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, San Francisco Sociology has begun to question how new genetic sciences affect older ways of constructing and contesting social identity, including forms of identity politics that have brought women and…

  • Winner of the 2014 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, sponsored by the ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.

  • Racial Taxonomy in Genomics Social Science & Medicine Volume 73, Issue 7, October 2011 pages 1019–1027 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.07.003 Catherine Bliss, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Race and Science Studies Department of Africana Studies Brown University This article examines the reflexive, biosocial nature of genomic meaning making around race, drawing on discourse analysis of 732 articles…

  • Mapping Race through Admixture The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society Volume 4, Issue 4 (2008) pages 79-84 Catherine Bliss, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Race and Science Studies Department of Africana Studies Brown University Mapping Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium (MALD) is a technology that separates genomic ancestral lineages to identify disease genes. In the…