The Race Debate in Public Health Genomics
2010-2011 Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science
November 12 , 2010
Barristers Hall, BU School of Law
Audio Recordings
Morning session: Alfred I.Tauber, chair
“Reexamining the Biological Race Debate”
Quayshawn Spencer, Department of Philosophy, University of San Francisco
Audio Recording (mp3 file) | PowerPoint Presentation
“Race and IQ in a Genomic Age”
Sarah Richardson, Department of History of Science & Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
“What is the ‘Environment’ in Gene-Environment Interaction?: Implications for Health Disparities Research”
Sara Shostak, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University
Afternoon session: Alisa Bokulich, chair
“Race for Cures: Ethnic Drugs as Public Health?”
Ruha Benjamin, Department of Sociology, Boston University
Audio Recording (mp3 file, the first few seconds are missing)
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee: unable to attend
“Race and the Other Possibilities for Personalized Medicine”
David Jones, Department of Science, Technology and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
