Conference: What’s the Use of Race?
April 25-26, 2008 - MIT Faculty Club
Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology- MIT,
Website: http://web.mit.edu/csd/WUR/Program.html
“…..Race continues to thrive as a category of analysis among state and federal institutions and in medical, scientific, and social research.
Despite concerns that race is a hollow and misleading concept, studies of race have produced overwhelming documentation of inequalities from birth to education, income, crime, punishment, disease, treatment, and death. Can race and ethnicity be objects of analysis and targets of policy, to alleviate inequalities, without causing harm by reifying invidious distinctions? This conference probes these quandaries by bringing together researchers and journal editors in medicine, science, law, and social science to explore the competing interests that make studies of race both feared and desired….”
The conference is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is requested.
Please email your name and affiliation to Ian Whitmarsh at whitmars@mit.edu
Related Publications:
Racial Categories in Medicine: A Failure of Evidence-Based Practice?
George T. H. Ellison*, Andrew Smart, Richard Tutton, Simon M. Outram, Richard Ashcroft, Paul Martin
PLoS Medicine- September 2007 | Volume 4 | Issue 9 | e287
Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?
Lundy Braun, Anne Fausto-Sterling*, Duana Fullwiley, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Alondra Nelson, William Quivers,
Susan M. Reverby, Alexandra E. Shields
PLoS Medicine - September 2007 | Volume 4 | Issue 9 | e271
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