A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicinePosted in Audio, Health/Medicine/Genetics, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, Videos on 2014-11-17 02:12Z by Steven |
A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
London, United Kingdom
2014-11-06
Speaker:
Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology
Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy
University of California, Berkeley
Chair:
Nigel Dodd, Professor of Sociology
London School of Economics
Professor Duster will analyse the resurgence of the idea that racial taxonomies deployed to explain complex social behaviours and outcomes have a biological and genetic basis.
Download the audio (01:29:49/43.2 MB) here. Download the video (01:29:27/767.1 MB) here.