Friday, January 15th, 2010

Science and Race

What is race -- and what distinctions really matter? In this segment, we'll hear about a traveling science exhibition on race produced by the American Anthropological Association. Are we so different? Can you look at someone's genes and tell what race they are?

Guests

Alan Goodman
Past President, American Anthropological Association
Co-director, The Race Project
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty
Hampshire College
Amherst, Massachusetts

Pilar N. Ossorio
Associate Professor of Law and Bioethics
University of Wisconsin, School of Law and School of Medicine
Madison, Wisconsin

Esteban González Burchard
Associate Professor
Departments of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences & Medicine
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Related Links

• RACE: Are We So Different?
• PBS: Race- The Power of An Illusion
• Nature Genetics commentary by Francis Collins: What we do and don't know about 'race', 'ethnicity', genetics and health at the dawn of the genome era

Segment produced by:Annette Heist

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