Lectures

PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts will give a keynote lecture for Penn Medicine's Health Equity Week. Her speech will be titled, "Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age."

Natalie Shibley will discuss the health politics of George Washington Carver, including ideas about nutrition, cough medicine, and peanut oil massage.

Dorothy Roberts will deliver the keynote address, "Race, Medicine, and Justice," for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. 

Abstract: Since the advent in the mid-2000s of genetic ancestry tests (GATs) available directly to consumers, researchers have considered what their effects would be on individuals’ conceptions of their own…

Although studies of human genetic variation have long discounted the existence of biological human races, race and biology (genetics, in particular) continue to be linked in relation to humans. In various ways…

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 'There’s Just One Human Race’: Notions of Biological Difference in a Color-Blind Italy

The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome

Jonathan Metzl

The Stigma of Political Protest, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Misperceptions that persons with schizophrenia are…

Jay Kaufman 2014-2015 PRSS Visiting Scholar. 

"How do we Study Racial Disparities in Health and What Have we Learned?"

Traditionally, the…