Race in Contemporary Medicine

Sander L. Gilman is distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University as of 2005. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over seventy books. For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago and for four years was a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine and creator of the Humanities Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Germany, and New Zealand. He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He has been awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997 and elected an honorary professor of the Free University in Berlin.

• Introduction: On Race and Medicine in Historical Perspective. Reflections on Race and the Biologization of Difference. Against Racial Medicine. Blood and Stories: How Genomics is Rewriting Race, Medicine and Human History. 'Why are Genetic and Medical Researchers Accepting a Category Created by Slaveholders?': A Social History of the Reification of 'Race'. Eugenics and the Racial Genome: Politics at the Molecular Level. The Risky Gene: Epidemiology and the Evolution of Race. Folk Taxonomy, Prejudice and the Human Genome: Using Heritable Disease as a Jewish Ethnic Marker. The Price of Science without Moral Constraints: German and American Medicine before DNA and Today. Deadly Medicine Today: The Impossible Denials of Racial Medicine. Biobanks of a 'Racial Kind': Mining for Difference in the New Genetics