Just last week, in the Miyagi prefecture of Japan, the local governor met victims of an official eugenics policy to apologise for the suffering they underwent.
“On behalf of the prefecture, I would like to offer my heartfelt apologies for...
Race and Ideology in Science and Medicine
Long-discredited notions of race as rooted in biology fueled eugenics policies and the Nazi extermination project. And yet,Osagie Obasogie asserts, biological race as an ideology continues to inform and infect key developments in science and medicine. Obasogie believes that race impact assessments can address some of the dangers posed by the persistence of regressive understandings of race.
Obasogie and Darnovsky, eds., Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics UC Press, 2018
Ogletree, Jr., and Sarat, eds., Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation NYU Press, 2017