What's Wrong with Race-Based Medicine?
Date: February 3, 2010
Time: 11:30 - 1:00 pm
Location: Theater, Coffman Memorial Union
Topic: Use of racial categories in medicine, drug development, and biotechnology
The lecture will be given by Prof. Dorothy Roberts, JD who is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor; Professor, Department of African-American Studies and Sociology; and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University Law School. She has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare.
For more information call 612-625-0055
or visit http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu
Sponsor(s): Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, University of Minnesota's Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences & the Center for Bioethics
