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	ooBdoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, vary by culture and over time and are often controversial, for scientific reasons as well as because of their impact on social identity and identity politics.
		In the face of these issues, some evolutionary scientists have simply abandoned the concept of race in favor of "population." What distinguishes population from previous groupings of humans by race is that it refers to a breeding population (essential to genetic calculations) and not to a biological taxon.
		Race "connotes geographic ancestry, by continent or large continental subregion" and "is used to denote continental or subcontinental clades".
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Race (11601 words)

	Race - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, are often controversial due to their impact on social identity hence identity politics.
		One of the key debates of the time was whether or not the human races (the number of which varied with each commentator) were separate species or not, and whether or not the crossing of human races was detrimental to their offspring.
		The rejection of race and the rise of "population" and "cline"
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Race (7414 words)

	Race in biomedicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The role of race in biomedicine is actively debated among biomedical researchers.
		The primary impetus for considering race in biomedical research is the possibility of improving the prevention and treatment of diseases.
		Race is associated with differential disease susceptibility and environmental responses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Race_in_biomedicine (2755 words)

	RACE - The Power of an Illusion . Background Readings \| PBS
		The race pit is most harmful because it is a place from which one cannot advance to understand human variation.
		Conversely, because race is socially defined, it is first like classifying by a concept such as "beauty," with no way to compare standards of beauty across classifiers and then having others decide to classify by "purity." The problem is that there is no objective and repeatable standard of classification.
		Race as biology does not explain the persistent and shameful rate at which fl babies suffer low birth weight and infant mortality.
	www.pbs.org /race/000_About/002_04-background-01-10.htm (1740 words)

	RACE FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The term race is commonly used to distinguish a population of humans from other populations, although the biological term ''race'' does not apply to the differences inside the race ''Homo sapiens sapiens''.
		Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, vary by culture and time and are often controversial due to their impact on social identity and hence identity politics.
		At the end of the 19th century, the notion of "race" was biologized, according to Foucault, being incorporated by racists biologists and eugenicists, who gave it the modern sense of "biological race", which would then be integrated to "state racism".
	www.freedomsailing.com /?req=RACE (15689 words)

	Science & Technology Studies \|\| Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		She is also the author of numerous articles on race and gender in the history of medicine, many of which address the importance of history in understanding the contemporary debate over race.
		Her "MIT Reader on Race and Gender in Society," co-authored with Rebecca Herzig, is forthcoming from MIT Press.
		At a one and a half-day long roundtable we gathered experts on race and racial politics for a public panel, which was followed by a day long interdisciplinary discussion of these questions.
	www.brown.edu /Faculty/COSTS/events.html (2787 words)

	Biomedicine -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Race in Biomedicine refers to an active debate among biomedical researchers about the meaning and importance of race to their research.
		See the literature on population genetics by internationally respected authors such as Salzano and Penna. Besides, the paragraph is not a reference to scientific work, but a real case of the meaninglessness of race definitions based on color and/or male-line genetic similarities.
		I am adjunct professor of Medical Genetics of the Medical School of the State University of Campinas, which is superior in quality to many schools in the so-called developed countries.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/16/biomedicine.html (503 words)

	Experts tackle issues raised by race-based drugs - MIT News Office
		Scientists and scholars specializing in medicine, public health, social sciences, ethics and law will convene at MIT on Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8, for a groundbreaking conference on the complex implications of such drugs as BiDil, a heart medication approved by the FDA in 2005 for treating patients who identify themselves as fl.
		The crossdisciplinary discussion, titled "Race, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Technology," was organized by the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology and Medicine (CSD) at MIT.
		Race, Pharmaceuticals, and Medical Technology - April 7-8, 2006, at MIT.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2006/sts-0405.html (539 words)

	RaceSci: History of Race in Science: Happenings: Race in Clinical Data
		Human Molecular Genetics and the Subject of Race: Contrasting the Rhetoric with the On-going Practices in Medicine and Law
		Race, Ethnicity, and Lung Function: An Examination of the Debate
		The Surprising Reinvention of Sex in Biomedicine at the End of the 20th Century: The Case of Genomic Imprinting
	web.mit.edu /racescience/happenings/final_programweb.html (727 words)

	Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Offering a historical analysis of race as a social construct, we describe the reification of race in health research.
		A näive genetic determinism will not only reinforce the dangerous idea that discrete human races exist, but will divert attention from the complex environmental, political, and social factors contributing to the unfair distribution of illness.
		The intersection of the genomics revolution with the health disparities initiative should serve as a catalyst to a long overdue public policy debate about the appropriate use of "race" in biomedicine.
	www.yale.edu /yjhple/koenigabstract.html (253 words)

	Race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		[edit] Case studies in the social construction of race
		A following article in the same issue, by Mat Cartmill and Kaye Brown, questions the precise rate of decline, but agrees that the Negroid/Caucasoid/Mongoloid paradigm has fallen into near-total disfavor.
		Inappropriate Labeling in Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Health." American Journal of Public Health, 88 (1998), 1303-1307.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Race (11886 words)

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		In 2006 he became the director of UCSD's Science Studies Program.
		Epstein's areas of academic interest and teaching include: sociology of biomedicine, health, and illness; sociology of science and scientific knowledge; gender, sexuality, race, and biomedicine; health and inequality; science policy and health policy; social movements; sociology of sexuality; lesbian and gay studies; and sociological theory.
		Epstein's book, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge (Univdersity of California Press 1996), is a study of the politicized production of knowledge in the AIDS epidemic.
	sciencestudies.ucsd.edu /Faculty/epstein.html (448 words)

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