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Pills for Prejudice: Implicit Bias and the Perils of Biologizing Racism

Mercredi, 24 octobre, 2018 16:30à18:00
Chancellor Day Hall Salle du Tribunal-École Maxwell-Cohen (NCDH 100), 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA
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Le Groupe de recherche en santé et droit (RGHL) présente sa conférence annuelle, laquelle sera prononcée par le professeur Jonathan Kahn, de Faculté de droit Mitchell Hamline (St. Paul, Minnesota).

RSVP: rghl.law [at] mcgill.ca

Cette conférence est accréditée pour 1,5h de formation continue obligatoire pour juristes par un dispensateur reconnu.

Résumé

[En anglais seulement] Professor Kahn's talk, entitled Pills for Prejudice: Implicit Bias and the Perils of Biologizing Racism, will critically evaluate trends that may reduce understandings of racism to a mere biological phenomenon of mental health to be addressed primarily through individualized biomedical interventions – rather than as a social problem for which the entire polity bears responsibility.

Le conférencier

[En anglais seulement] Jonathan Kahn is the James E. Kelley Professor of Law at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law. He holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History from Cornell University and a J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law, U. of California, Berkeley. His current research focuses on the intersections of law and biotechnology, with particular attention to how regulatory mandates intersect with scientific, clinical and commercial practice in producing legal understandings of race and racism in American society. He is the author of Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age (Columbia University Press, 2012). His newest book is Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice (Columbia University Press, 2018).

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