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> From: Gregory Michael Dorr <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Would you consider posting the following CFP reminder? Thanks.
>
> Call for Papers: The Business of Race and Science
> Conference: March 30-31, 2007, Center for the Study of Diversity in
> Science,
> Technology, and Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
> Cambridge,
> Massachusetts
> Submission Deadline: October 15th, 2006.
> Recent advances in genetics have renewed interest in sciences and
> technologies
> of race.
> Although humans may share 99.9% of their genes, there may be much that is
> interesting, even profitable, in the remaining 0.1%. This has fueled
> rapidly
> growing interest in a range of products that claim to take advantage of
> differences between human populations. Companies now market race-specific
> medications and vitamins, and other racial therapeutics are in
> development.
> Competing laboratories offer genetic analyses of race and ancestry.
> Racial
> science has infiltrated our discussions of topics as wide-ranging as
> cosmetics
> and forensics, while parallel developments commercialize differences
> between
> strains of plants and animals. Increasing funding for racial analyses
> from
> governments, corporations, and consumers will only accelerate this
> process.
> Are
> these ventures appropriate uses of new understandings of race? >Will this
> commodification of racial science help or harm the targeted populations
> and
> society at large? Who speaks for populations in endorsing or sanctioning
> the
> commercialization of racial difference? How will the controversies play
> out in
> different countries and contexts? How will attending to the business of
> racial
> science help understand the science itself and clarify its role in our
> world?
> This conference invites papers from many disciplines -- medicine,
> pharmacology,
> history, anthropology, sociology, STS, genetics, business, ethics, law,
> and
> others -- to discuss the promise and pitfalls of the new business of race
> and
> science. Invited speakers reflect this multi-disciplinary diversity,
> including:
> KeithWailoo (history of race and medicine); Frank Douglas
> (biomedicine/pharmaceuticals); Mike Fortun (science and technology
> studies/genetics); and Duana Fullwiley (medical
> anthropology/pharmacogenomics).
>
> Abstracts (300 words or less) should be submitted by October 15th to:
> Gregory Dorr, Ph.D.
> Program in Science, Technology, and Society
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 77 Massachusetts Avenue
> E51-185
> Cambridge, MA 02139
> [log in to unmask] (email submissions are encouraged)
> --
> Gregory Michael Dorr, Ph.D.
> Postdoctoral Associate, Center for the Study
> of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 77 Massachusetts Ave.
> E51-185
> Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
> p: 617-253-4041
> f: 617-258-8118
> [log in to unmask]
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>
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