UCSF COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
HISTORY OF HEALTH SCIENCES PROGRAM

2006-07

Gender in Science and Medicine (F)

Forthcoming.

The Pursuit of Racial Science since 1800(F)
Dr. Justin Suran

Emphasizing disputes within medicine, anthropology, and the biological sciences, this seminar surveys the history of racial science from early 19 th -century craniometrics to 21 st -century genomics.  Topics include the Darwinian controversy, Anglo-American eugenics, Boasian anthropology, Nazi medicine, evolutionary genetics, the linkage of “color” and “culture” in multiculturalist discourse, and the collection of racial data by public health authorities.

NOTE: Before our first meeting on Friday, Sept. 15, please read the following five articles, posted here as PDF files. Do your best to decipher the difficult technical passages.

Directed Reading : Individual Tutorials (W, S)