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 |  The Medicalization of RaceModerated by Tavis SmileySaturday, November 21, 2009, from 1:00-2:30 p.m.CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE! The Human Genome Project shows that 99.9 percent of the human genome is the same in everyone regardless of race. Based on this, many scientists argue that 'race' has no biological meaning and is used to perpetuate harmful social inequities. Others contend that racial groups can genetically differ from one another and that the differences can have medical importance.How valid is the concept of race from the biological standpoint? Should race matter or should medicine be colorblind? How much should doctors and researchers place on the role of race in health issues?Scientists will present the scientific basis of race and human variation. In this light, panelists will offer different viewpoints on the science and policy of racial categorization in medical research and disease treatment.CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE!Featured panelists include: (click name for bio)Tavis Smiley—moderatorHost, Tavis Smiley on PBS and The Tavis Smiley Show from PRIPragna Patel, Ph.D.Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern CaliforniaYolanda T. Moses, Ph.D.Professor of Anthropology; Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Excellence and Equity; and Vice Provost for Conflict Resolution at the University of California, RiversideEsteban González Burchard, M.D., M.P.H.Associate Professor, Departments of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine, University of California, San FranciscoMichael J. Montoya, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, IrvineCLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE!Resources for Further ReadingBooksUseful LinksNewspaper ArticlesScholarly Journal ArticlesMedicine’s Race Problem, by Sally Satel. Policy Review No. 110, December 2001 - January 2002.Race as Biology is Fiction, Racism as a Social Science Problem is Real: Anthological and Historical Perspectives on Social Construction of Race, by Audrey Smedley and Brian D. Smedley.Journal of American Psychologist, Vol. 60, No. 1, 16-25. January 2005.Changing the paradigm from 'race' to human genome variation, by Charmaine D M Royal & Georgia M Dunston. Nature Genetics, 36, S5 - S7 (2004).Genes, drugs and race. Editorial. Nature Genetics, Vol. 29, No. 3, 239-240. November 2001.Conceptualizing human variation, by S.O.Y Keita et al. Nature Genetics 36, S17 - S20 (2004).The Medicalization of Race: Scientific Legitimization of a Flawed Social Construct, by Ritchie Witzig. Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 125, No. 8, 675-679. October, 15 1996.Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease, by Neil Risch et al. Genome Biology, Vol. 3, No. 7. July 1, 2001.The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics, by Sandra Soo-Jin Lee et al.Genome Biology Vol. 9, No. 7. July 15. 2008.Class – The Ignored Determinant of the Nation’s Health, by Stephen L. Isaacs and Steven A. Schroeder. The New England Journal of Medicine. September 9, 2004.Why Genes Don’t Count (for Racial Differences in Health), by Alan H. Goodman. American Journal of Public Health. Vol. 90, Bo, 11, 1699-1701. November 2000. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE!
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