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Revisiting Race and Ethnicity in the Context of Emerging Genetic Research

Past Seminars

2004 Winter/Spring Quarter

January 8 / Board Room
Troy Duster, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley and NYU
The Implications of Behavioral Genetics Inquiry for Explanations of the Link Between Crime, Violence, and Race  

January 22 / Board Room
Jonathan Kahn, Ph.D., J.D., Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
Regulating Race: Statistics, Patenting, and the Troubling Emergence of 'Ethnic' Drugs
Getting The Numbers Right: Statistical Mischief and Racial Profiling In Heart Failure Research
African-American Heart Failure Trial (A-HeFT): Rationale, Design, and Methodology

For background information about the BiDil® trials, please visit the NitroMed Web site, http://www.nitromed.com/ .

February 5 / POSTPONED TO SPRING QUARTER

March 4th / Board Room
Jacqueline Stevens, Johnson Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College
Racial Meanings and Scientific Methods: Policy Changes for NIH-funded Publications Reporting Human Variation
Symbolic Matter: DNA and Other Linguistic Stuff

March 24 / Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics conference room
Joseph Kaufert, Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba and Senior Investigator: Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
The Role of Indigenous Communities in Research Ethics Review: An Emergent Issue in Genetic Research

April 1st / Baker Room
Neil Risch, Professor of Genetics at Stanford University
Genetic Structure, Race/Ethnicity, Admixture, and Confounding

April 15 / History Building , Room 105 (Bldg 200)
 Panelists: Peter Underhill, Michael Thaler, Don Barr
The Bell Curve and its Scientific Legacies
A discussion of Race: The Reality of Human Differences by Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele (Westview Press, 2004)
Racial realities or bombast? When is it helpful to categorize people according to race?
Opening Statment: The Case for Race and Chapter 7: Race and Physical Differences from Race: The Reality of Human Differences by Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele 2003. Westview Press

April 29/ Board Room
Alondra Nelson, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Yale University
Roots in the Age of Genomics: African Americans, Genetic Genealogies and Diaspora 

Dumit, J. 2003. Is It Me or My Brain? Depression and Neuroscientific Facts. Journal of Medical Humanities 24 (1-2): 35-47. (concept of objective self-fashioning) Rotimi, C. 2003. Genetic Ancestry Tracing and the African Identity: A Double-Edged Sword? Developing World Bioethics 3 (2): 151-158.
McConkie-Rosell, A. and DeVellis, B. 2000. Threat to Parental Role: A Possible Mechanism of Altered Self Concept Related to Carrier Knowledge. Journal of Genetic Counseling. 9(4): 285-302.

May 13/ Board Room
Jonathan Marks, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, UNC-Charlotte
The Cutting Edge of Scientific Racism
Marks, J. (2002) Contemporary bio-anthropology: Where the trailing edge of anthropology meets the leading edge of bioethics. Anthropology Today, 18(4):9-13. Marks, J. (2002)
Folk heredity. In: Race and Intelligence: Separating Science from Myth, ed. by J. Fish. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 95-116. Marks, J.
Review of Sarish

May 20 / Board Room
Jennifer Reardon, Duke University and Brown University,
The Paradoxes of Participation: The Status of 'Groups' in Liberal Democracies in A Genomic Age

2003 Fall Quarter

October 9
Marcus Feldman, Stanford University (Genetics)

November 13
Rick Kittles, Howard University (Genetics)

December 4
Keith Wailoo, Rutgers University (History)

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