Tag: Michael Root

  • The Philosophy of Race Routledge 2011-12-14 1,584 pages Hardback: 978-0-415-49602-5 Edited by: Paul Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy; African American Studies Pennsylvania State University Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the…

  • The Problem of Race in Medicine Philosophy of the Social Sciences Volume 31, Number 1 (March 2001) pages 20-39 DOI: 10.1177/004839310103100102 Michael Root, Professor of Philosophy University of Minnesota The biomedical sciences employ race as a descriptive and analytic category. They use race to describe differences in rates of morbidity and mortality and to explain…