Upcoming Events
The Holmesburg Prison Experiments and the Call for Restorative Justice
A Panel Hosted by the Jones Foundation for Returning Citizens
Beyond Salvage: Development and Ethnocide in the Scientific Study of Indigenous Groups in Cold War Paraguay with Dr. Sebastián Gil-Riano
Faculty Working Group Meeting and Colloquium
Dr. Sebastián Gil-Riano
PRSS Videos
PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts discusses the history, myths, and harms of race-based medicine in herTEDTalk: The Problem with Race-based Medicine, November 20, 2015. The talk was part of the 2015 TEDMED session called “Who Cares for Health Care?” that highlighted surprising perspectives and under-appreciated challenges facing our health care system.
Penn Medicine and The Afterlives of Slavery Project
Given that Penn Medical School was the first of its kind in colonial America, the University of Pennslyvania has a special responsibility to not only uncover its relationship to enslavement but to lead other institutions in similar efforts.