FPR UCLA 2015: "Conceptualizing Sex Differences in the Human Genome"  (Sarah Richardson)
Channel: The Foundation for Psychocultural Research
Date: 2015-12-18

Sarah Richardson, PhD, is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. She is jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Science and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. A historian and philosopher of science, her research focuses on race and gender in the biosciences and on the social dimensions of scientific knowledge. She is the author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome (Chicago, 2013) and co-editor of Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age (Rutgers, 2008) and Postgenomics (Duke, 2015).