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Biological Racism and Scientific Ethics

Responsibility of Science (Historical)

The ethics of knowledge and scientific practice

Review Article

The ‘ethic of knowledge’ and responsible science: Responses to genetically motivated racism.

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Eugenics Legacy

Control Podcast (NPR) - Eugenics and the Corruption of Science

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Biological Racism

An overview of how the social idea of race was incorporated into biological models and led to biological racism/scientific racism

Biological Racism Collection

From primary historical sources to modern day critiques - the resources in this library catalogue the long history of race in biological models and the practice of science and medicine.

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"Science Must Overcome Its Racist Legacy"

In this editorial by Nobles, et al. 2022, the journal Nature addresses harm in biology and medicine from racism.

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