Readings

BF510 Reading Schedule (Example Fall 2023)

Week 1 Intro and Week 2 – Is Racism Endemic in Science? (Melisa)

General Readings

• Superior – Chapter 1
• Superior – Chapter 8 (pages 126-135)

Annotation

• Davenport 1928- Race Crossing in Jamaica
• Castle 1930 – Race Harmonies

Week 3 – Race and Biology (Melisa)

General Readings

• Superior – Chapter 2 – It’s a Small World
• Central Dogma
• Speaking of Race Podcast: Race and Health Part 2

Annotation

• Sickle Cell
• Global Distribution Sickle Cell

Week 4: Genes and Context for Genetics (Melisa)

General Readings

• Superior – Chapter 3 – Priestcraft
• Superior – Chapter 4 – Inside the Fold
• Medical Apartheid – Chapter 8 – The Black Stork
• The Biology of Skin Color – Biointeractive with quiz

Annotation

• Case Study 1

Week 5: Eugenics and Modern Race Science (Melisa)

General Readings

• Superior – Chapter 6 – Human Biodiversity
• Superior – Chapter 7 – Roots
• Lewontin 1972 – The apportionment of human diversity
• Edwards 2003 – Human Genetic Diversity – Lewontin’s Fallacy

CASE STUDY 1 DUE Annotation (Perusall) Analysis and Synthesis (Blackboard)

Annotation (for Discussion)

• 1000 Genomes Project Consortium – A Global Reference for Human Genetic Variation (2015)

Week 6: The Genetics of IQ/ Correlation versus Causation (Adam)

General Readings

• Superior – Chapter 9 – Caste
• Superior – Chapter 10 – The Illusionists
• Chapter 11: GWAS
• Association claims in the Genomic era

Annotation

• Okbay et al: Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment.

Week 7: Genes to Epigenetics Transition (Melisa)

General Readings

• Superior – Chapter 11 – Racialized Medicine
• A Brief History of Epigenetics
• 2003 Review – The Slavery and Hypertension Hypothesis

Annotation

• Genetics of Hypertension in African Americans and Other of African Descent – 2019

Week 8: Epigenetics and Context for Health Care (Melisa)

General Readings

• Speaking of Race Podcast – Race and Health
• Do US Black Women Experience Stress-Related Accelerated Biological Aging?
• Video: Geronimus, A.T. (October 25, 2019). Weathering and health inequity
• Weathering and Allosteric Patterns on Load Scores
• Williams 2018 – Stress and Mental Health

Annotation

• Case Study 2

Week 9: Biological Effects of Chronic Stress (Melisa)

General Readings

• Scientific American – How Economic Inequity Inflicts Real Psychological Harm
• Fang et al 2020. Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection?

Annotation

• Schulz and Chaudhari 2015. High Risk Populations: The Pimas of Arizona and Mexico

Week 10: Data in Medicine (Adam)

General Readings

• Algorithms and Bias (from Vox)
• Machine Bias (Pro Publica)

Annotation Compass Risk Assessment

• Case Study 3

Week 11: Medical Data/Algorithmic Bia/Race Correction (Adam)

Annotation

• Separate and Unequal: Race-Based Algorithms and Implications for Nephrology

Week 12: Reversing the Biological Effects of Racism (Felicity)

General Readings

• Medical Apartheid – Chapter 13 – Infection and Inequity
• How Racism Creeps into Medicine (The Atlantic)

Discussion

• Vyas et al 2020 – Hidden in Plain Sight

Week 13: Education and Change – (TJ)

General Readings

• Holloway, L.(August 17, 2015). Babies born to mothers who suffer racism have health disadvantages which starts from inside the womb, writes Dr. Laia Bécares
• Marshall, M. (July 7, 2021). COVID and the brain: Researchers zero in on how damage occurs

Discussion

• Truong and Sharif 2021: We’re all in this together

Week 14: In class project presentations