ANTHRO 185A: Race and Biomedicine
January 15
Theories of Race: Histories of Scientific Applications
Gould, Stephen Jay
1993 American Polygeny and Craniometry Before Darwin. In Sandra Harding, ed. The “Racial” Economy of Science. p.84-115. (Download the PDF)
Hodl, Klaus
2002 The Black body and the Jewish body: a comparison of medical images. Patterns of Prejudice. 35(1): 19-34. (Download the PDF)
January 23
Race, Medicine and Immigration
Ong, Aihwa
1999 Making the Biopolitical Subject: Cambodian Immigrants, Refugee
Medicine and Cultural Citizenship in California (Download the PDF)
King, Nicholas.
2003 Immigration, Race and Geographies of Difference in the Tuberculosis Pandemic. In Gandy and Zumla’s The Return of the White Plague. (Download the PDF)
Shah, Nayan
2001 Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown. University of California Press. (Download the PDF)
January 29
Racialization, Human Subjects and Experimentation
Jones, James
1993 The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: “A Moral Astigmatism.” In The
“Racial Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future.” Sandra Harding, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p.275-286. (Download the PDF)
Braun, Lundy and Evelynn Hammonds
2008 Race, populations, and genomics: Africa as laboratory. Social Science & Medicine 67: 1580–1588. (Download the PDF)
Fairhead, James, Melissa Leach and Mary Small
2006 Where techno-science meets poverty: Medical research and the economy
of blood in The Gambia, West Africa. Social Science & Medicine. 63: 1109-1120. (Download the PDF)
Montoya, M.
2007 Bioethnic Conscription: Genes, Race and Mexicana/o Ethnicity in
Diabetes Research.” Cultural Anthropology. (Download the PDF)
February 12 Racial Ordering and Classifications
Gravelee, Clarence
2005 Ethnic Classification in Southwestern Puerto Rico. Social Forces. 83(3). (Download the PDF)
February 19 Race
Genetics and Biomedicine
Kahn, Jonathan
2002 How a Drug Becomes “Ethnic”: Law, Commerce and the Production of
Racial Categories in Medicine. Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics. IV(I): 1-46. (Download the PDF)
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