Tag: Vanderbilt News

  • Biology, race and politics explored in upcoming Chancellor’s Lecture Vanderbilt News Vanderbilt University 2012-10-10 Kara Furlong Is race a biological category written in our genes? Or are genomic scientists and biomedical researchers mistakenly using race to explain away health disparities among different population groups?   Dorothy Roberts, the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University…

  • Dorothy E. Roberts: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race [Vanderbilt University Lecture] Vanderbilt News Vanderbilt University 2012-10-30 Watch video of Dorothy E. Roberts—recently named Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania—presenting “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” based on her latest book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create…