Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to GenomicsPosted in Health/Medicine/Genetics, Live Events, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States on 2014-10-31 19:21Z by Steven |
Race Medicine: Treating Health Inequities from Slavery to Genomics
University of New England
Alfond Center for Health Sciences
Room 205
Biddeford, Maine
2014-11-03, 17:30 EST (Local Time)
Contact: David Livingstone Smith
Phone: (207) 602-2237
Annual David Hume Lecture on Human Nature
Dorothy Roberts, J.D., will trace the U.S. history of race medicine—the practice of treating disease according to race.
As Dr. Roberts will explain, race medicine has functioned to make health inequities and other forms of racial inequality seem natural and inevitable. This practice is no less troubling in today’s genomic age than at the time of its origins in slavery.
Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Law School where she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander chair…
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