Troy Duster Race And Reification In Science. The article Race and Reification in Science by Troy Duster states that current research in medecine and genetics once again showed the importance of resisting to deploy racial categories. The son of Alfreda Duster a community organizer he was raised on the south side of Chicago. A difference in hypertension and heart diseases between Americans with European descendent and Americans with African descendent has long been discussed and examined. The molecular reinscription of race in science law and medicine.
Troy Duster Professor Emeritus troydusternyuedu 295 Lafayette St Room 4143 Phone. Controversies in Biomedical Behavioral and Forensic Sciences by Pilar Ossorio and Troy Duster American Psychologist 2005Jan Vol 601 115-128. A useful metaphor comes from an understanding of the two elements that must come to together to explain how an epoxy glue is made. In just six decades the incarceration rate of African Americans in relation to whites has gone up in a striking manner. POLICY FORUM MEDICINE Race and Reification in Science Troy Duster. Sociology professor and author Troy Duster was born on July 11 1936 in Chicago Illinois.
Recent research in medicine and genetics makes it even more crucial to resist actively the temptation to deploy racial categories as if immutable in nature and society.
A lfred North Whitehead warned many years ago about the fallacy of misplaced concreteness HN11 12 by which he meant the. Gibbs AAS-2301 10262015 Troy Duster in his article Race and Reification in Science shows how the concept of race is trying to be used in pharmacogenomics forensics and human molecular genetics. Duster gives three specific examples of where race is used which are hypertension and heart disease studies of human genetic diversity and snp patterns and searches for a biological basis for criminal. Two quite separate and seemingly unrelated developments have converged in the last decade to concretize literally the cascading reification of race and ethnicity in science medicine and law. 212 998-8882 Office Hours. In just six decades the incarceration rate of African Americans in relation to whites has gone up in a striking manner.