Science, Medicine, and Anthropology

Author: Naomi Zucker

Books

Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

Post author Naomi Zucker
Post date December 23, 2019

Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life.

Ruha Benjamin, Ed.

Duke University Press, 2019. 416 pages.

“How might we craft a justice-oriented approach to technoscience?” asks Ruha Benjamin in the introduction to Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (11). This question is at the core of the book’s project, knitting together …

Tags Critical Race Theory, Incarceration, STS, Technology

Books

Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson’s Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine

Post author Naomi Zucker
Post date July 12, 2018

Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine

Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson (editors)

University of Minnesota Press, 2017. 256 pages

“The focus on race in medicine and the hard sciences,” write Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson in their introduction to the new edited volume Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine, “creates unintended consequences—forms …

Tags Debt, Genetics/Genomics, Health disparaties, Race, United States