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Unlocking the Violent Brain - Oliver Rollins

Feb 22, 2016 at - | Location: 337 Cohen Hall

HSS Workshop: Unlocking the Violent Brain: Managing Controversy and Uncertainty in Contemporary Biocriminology

Sponsored by the Department of History and Sociology of Science (HSS)

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Dorothy Roberts - TEDMED Talk: Race Medicine is Bad Medicine

Nov 20, 2015 at |

PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts will give a TEDMED talk titled "Race Medicine is Bad Medicine" on November 20, 2015 in Palm Springs, CA…



Stigma of Political Protest, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia - Jonathan Metzl (Vanderbilt)

Oct 22, 2015 at | Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall (249. S. 36th Street) 

Jonathan Metzl
The Stigma of Political Protest, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Misperceptions that persons with schizophrenia are…



Structural Competency: New Directions in Medical Training - Jonathan Metzl (Vanderbilt)

Oct 22, 2015 at | 3401 Walnut St., Max Kade Center Rm 329-A

Jonathan Metzl
Structural Competency: New Directions in Medical Training

In the clinical setting, the impacts of…



Sorting Brains Out - Conference (Penn Department of History and Sociology of Science)

Sep 18, 2015 - Sep 19, 2015 at - | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor

Sorting Brains Out: Tasks, Tests, and Trials in the Neuro- and Mind Sciences, 1890-2015

Since the late nineteenth century, scientists have devised an ever-increasing number of tasks, tests…



For Whom the Genome Tolls - Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz)

Apr 20, 2015 at | 3401 Walnut St., Rm 330-A

Jenny Reardon
For Whom the Genome Tolls: Race, Genomics and Justice in the American South at the Turn of the Millennium
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The Past and Present Significance of Racial Mobility - Aliya Saperstein (Stanford)

Apr 8, 2015 at | 3718 Locust Walk, McNeil Building, Room 286-287

Aliya Saperstein
The Past and Present Significance of Racial Mobility

In this talk, Professor Saperstein will…



Big Data Record & the Study of Racial Disparities - Jay Kaufman (McGill University)

Mar 26, 2015 at - | 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 330A

Jay Kaufman - 2014-1015 PRSS Visiting Scholar. 

"Big Data Record Linkages for the Study of Racial…



How do we Study Racial Disparities in Health - Jay Kaufman (McGill University)

Mar 25, 2015 at - | 3601 Locust Walk, The ARCH, room 108

Jay Kaufman 2014-2015 PRSS Visiting Scholar. 
"How do we Study Racial Disparities in Health and What Have we Learned?"

Traditionally, the…



Biocriminology and the Enduring "Question of Race" - Oliver Rollins (Penn)

Mar 19, 2015 at - | 3401 Walnut St., Max Kade Center Rm 329-A

Oliver Rollins
Biocriminology and the Enduring "Question of Race"

This talk examines the use of race in biocriminology. Specifically, it will provide an understanding of the discursive ways that the…