IRHS - Institutional Racism in Health and Science


CASE STUDIES ON GENES AND EUGENICS

NEW 2022- Zhang, M., Wu, S., Du, S. et al. Genetic variants underlying differences in facial morphology in East Asian and European populations. Nat Genet 54, 403–411 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01038-7

NEW 2022- The promise and peril of the new science of social genomics.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03171-6

NEW 2022 -A polygenic score for educational attainment partially predicts voter turnout.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2022715118

Very recent example; sterilizations in ICE facilities (news articles): https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/forced-sterilization-accusations-ice-facility-fit-trumps-poor-treatment

podcast https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914465793/ice-a-whistleblower-and-forced-sterilization

1960s forced sterilization of Latin women in LA (article about documentary): https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/no-m-s-beb-s-looks-back-l-mexican-moms-n505256

1920s supreme court case (podcast) - transcript in folder https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/g-unfit

Planned parenthood founder (planned parenthood website and news page): https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/our-history https://www.wsj.com/articles/planned-parenthood-and-sangers-eugenics-legacy-11619534012

Podcast on building on the Linnaean foundation and reinforcing scientific racism- transcript in folder https://www.dopelabspodcast.com/podcast-episodes/lab-025-skin-deep

Chapter 8 - the Black Stork (from Medical Apartheid) (can be accessed via BU Library)

Newman 2018 essay: “Bartering from the Bench: A Tennessee Judge Prevents Reproduction of Social Undesirables; Historic Analysis of Involuntary Sterilization of African American Women”- in Perusall

Bodmer et al. 2021 paper: “The outstanding scientist, R.A. Fisher: his views on eugenics and race”- in Perusall

Harvard’s eugenics era https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2016/03/harvards-eugenics-era

Podcast on race and intelligence - transcript in Perusall http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/podcast/race-and-intelligence-part-i

University College London and Galton’s legacy https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01275.x

New Yorker article on behavioural geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden “Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters