Topic
Race & medicine research, explained
6 open-access race & medicine studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- How “Asian rickets” pathologised British South Asians
Bivins shows elite UK metabolic units and DHSS education-only policy treated rickets in Commonwealth immigrants as a cultural/racial problem to be cured by assimilation.
- Race and place in extreme physiology
Heggie argues that altitude, heat, and cold physiology kept colonial race–place assumptions alive, using blood both as fluid and as hereditary identity.
- Why geneticists' race-IQ statement flopped
Serpico shows that the GSA's 1976 Resolution became an impartial report of disagreement rather than a public rebuke of hereditarian race-IQ claims, and so had little impact.
- Liberal antiracism in cultural evolution
Brinitzer argues that cultural evolution entrenched a liberal postwar epistemology of human difference, aiming to rethink the human sciences from a modern evolutionary perspective without ranking races.
- Was Carl Gustav Carus a romantic racist?
Strunz, Lienert, and Bruns argue that race and inequality sat at the centre of Carus’s oeuvre, from solar ‘daylight’ Europeans to craniology and American polygenists.
- What was the human Wallace Line?
Besides the famous faunal break, Wallace drew a human line that later physical anthropologists, trained in medicine, tried to quantify—and that haunted West Papua politics.