Tag: Sheldon Krimsky

  • 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.

  • Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth and Culture [Hauskeller Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1946-1948 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.870348 Christine Hauskeller, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology University of Exeter, United Kingdom Race and the genetic revolution: science, myth and culture, edited…

  • Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense Harvard University Press February 2013 384 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 2 graphs, 4 tables Hardcover ISBN: 9780674064461 Edited by Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning in the School of Arts; Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Public Health & Community Medicine in the School of Medicine…

  • Can Science Explain the Concept of Race? PsycCRITIQUES Volume 57, Release 16 (2012-04-18) Article 4 5 pages Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Amed Logrono, Senior Human Biology Major Brown University A review of Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture…

  • Race Finished: Book Review American Scientist April-May, 2012 Jan Sapp, Professor of Biology and History York University, Toronto Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth. Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle. xviii + 226 pp. Texas A&M University Press, 2011. Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture. Edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan. xiv +…

  • Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture Columbia University Press September 2011 304 pages 1 illus; 4 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-15697-4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-15696-7 Edited by: Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning; Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine Tufts School of Medicine Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Kathleen…

  • The headlines back in June, 2005, read “FDA approves a heart drug for African Americans”. The decision that gave the company NitroMed approval for its drug BiDil exclusively to a “racial group” represented a milestone in US drug policy. The decision ignited a debate that polarised the African American community, confounded proponents of personalised medicine,…

  • While many commentators who supported the approval of BiDil for black patients state that “race” is not a scientifically precise term for identifying relevant genomic or physiological characteristics that differentiate population groups, nevertheless, they argue that “self-identified race” is a useful proxy for those characteristics. However, what is the evidence that the proxy “self-identified race”…