KIN 249: Lecture 7.1
Table of Contents
- Lecture 7.1: Race, Science & Sport
- Objectives
- Opening Questions
- Race
- MYTH: Race is clearly defined
- Race?
- Race and Science
- Tuskegee Experiment
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- Recent Research
- Human Genome Project
- Why Science?
- MYTH: Blacks are better athletes
- Myths Identified by Giulianotti (64)
- Challenges to the MYTH
- MYTH: Systematic racism has been eradicated
- What this myth masks . . .
- The Mascot Issue . . .
- Michigan Coalition Against Racism in Sports
- Vanilla Dunk . . . Discussion Qs
- Sources
Text and Images from Slide
Recent Research
- Race and New Heart Drug
BiDil Heart medicine
Lecture Notes
More recent pharmaceutical research that has targeted one particular ‘race' - again, African Americans - has been met with much skepticism largely because of this longer history of experimentation that includes the Tuskegee syphilis study. Bidil, a heart drug developed in the past decade, has been tested exclusively on African Americans. This time, race has been defined by the subjects themselves: if they self-identified as African American, they could be included in the study. The difference here with Bidil is that scientists stopped the study once they realized the drug worked. Thankfully, time has changed certain aspects of the definition of race. For more information about Bidil and race, you can check out the link on the Readings and Lecture page for the week - it will take you to the MSNBC clip you see on this slide.
Bidil video clip: http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=31b57fe9-2ff9-4ea6-8232-d388106dc008&f=00&fg=email