Books
Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Budgeting Democracy: State Building and Citizenship in America, 1890-1928. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Book Chapters
Race and the FDA; FDA in the 21st Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies. Columbia University Press, 2015. Ed. H.F. Lynch and I.G. Cohen.
Inventing Race as a Genetic Commodity in Biotechnology Patents; Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Ed. M. Biagioli, P. Jaszi, and M. Woodmansee.
Surrogate markers and surrogate marketing in biomedicine : the regulatory etiology and commercial progression of “ethnic” drug; Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. Ed. A. Clarke et al.
Patenting Race in a Genomic Age; Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Ed. B. Koenig, S. Soo-Jin Lee, and S. Richardson.
Abe Fortas; The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties. New York: Routledge, 2006. Ed. P. Finkelman.
Abe Fortas; The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Pub., 1994. Ed. M. Urofsky.
Articles
Pills for Prejudice: Implicit Bias and Technical Fix for Racism, 43 American Journal of Law & Medicine, no. 2-3, 263 (2017).
Science is Complex–So is Race, 17 The American Journal of Bioethics 56 (2017).
Revisiting Racial Patents in an Era of Precision Medicine, 67 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1153 (2017).
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Neuroscience, Sincerity, and the Law, 3 Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 203 (2015).
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‘When Are You From?’ Time, Space and Capital in the Molecular Reinscription of Race, 66 British Journal of Sociology 68 (2015).
Privatizing Biomedical Citizenship: Risk, Duty, and Potential in Circle of Pharmaceutical Life, 15 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science, & Technology 791 (2014).
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The Troubling Persistence of Race in Pharmacogenomics, 40 The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 873 (2012).
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Synthetic Hype: A Skeptical View of the Promise of Synthetic Biology, 45 Valparaiso University Law Review 1343 (2011).
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Keep Hope Alive: Updating the Prudent Investment Standard for Allocating Nuclear Plant Cancellation Costs, 22 Fordham Environmental Law Review 43 (2010).
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Race No Longer a Relevant Element in DNA Trial Evidence, 24 Criminal Justice 39 (2009).
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Race, Genes and Justice: A Call to Reform the Presentation of Forensic DNA Evidence in Criminal Trials, 74 Brooklyn Law Review 325 (2009).
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Race and Ancestry in Biomedical Research: Exploring the Challenges, 1 Genome Medicine 8 (2009).
Beyond Bidil: The Expanding Embrace of Race in Biomedical Research and Product Development, 3 St. Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 61 (2009).
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Flaws in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Rationale for Supporting the Development and Approval of BiDil as a Treatment for Heart Failure in Black Patients, 36 The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 449 (2008).
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Race in a Bottle, 297 Scientific American 40 (2007-2008).
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The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing, 318 Science (2007).
Race-ing Patents/Patenting Race: An Emerging Political Geography of Intellectual Property in Biotechnology, 92 Iowa Law Review 353 (2007).
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The Politics of Patenting Race, 20 Genewatch 3 (2007).
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Harmonizing Race: Competing Regulatory Paradigms of Racial Categorization in International Drug Development, 5 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 34 (2006).
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Patenting Race, 24 Nature Biotechnology 1349 (2006).
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Being Specific about Race-Specific Medicine, 25 Health Affairs 375 (2006). With Pamela Shankar.
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Exploiting Race in Drug Development: BiDil’s Interim Model of Pharmacogenomics, 38 Social Studies of Science 737 (2006).
Race, Pharmacogenomics, and Marketing: Putting BiDil in Context, 6 American Journal of Bioethics W1 (2006).
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Genes, Race, and Population: Avoiding a Collision of Categories, 96 American Journal of Public Health 1965 (2006).
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Controlling Identity: Plessy, Privacy, and Racial Defamation, 54 DePaul Law Review 755 (2005).
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From Disparity to Difference: How Race-Specific Medicines May Undermine Policies to Address Inequalities in Health Care, 15 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 105 (2005).
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BiDil: Race Medicine or Race Marketing?, Health Affairs (2005). With Pamela Shankar.
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How a Drug Becomes ‘Ethnic’: Law, Commerce, and the Production of Racial Categories in Medicine, 4 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 1 (2004).
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Privacy as a Legal Principle of Identity Maintenance, 33 Seton Hall Law Review 371 (2003).
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What’s the Use? Law and Authority in Patenting Human Genetic Material, 14 Stanford Law & Policy Review 417 (2003).
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Getting the Numbers Right: Statistical Mischief and Racial Profiling in Heart Failure Research, 46 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 473 (2003).
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Product Liability and the Politics of Corporate Presence: Identity and Accountability in Macpherson V. Buick, 35 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 3 (2001).
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What’s in a Name? Law’s Identity Under the Tort of Appropriation, 74 Temple Law Review 263 (2001).
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Biotechnology and the Legal Constitution of the Self: Managing Identity in Science, the Market, and Society, 51 Hastings Law Journal 909 (2000).
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Bringing Dignity Back to Light: Publicity Rights and the Eclipse of the Tort of Appropriation of Identity, 17 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 213 (1999).
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Enslaving the Image: The Origins of the Tort of Appropriation of Identity Reconsidered, 2 Legal Theory 301 (1996).
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Re-Presenting Government and Representing the People: Budget Publicity and Citizenship in New York City, 1908-1911, 19 Journal of Urban History 84 (1993).
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Other Publications
Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America [book review], Social History of Medicine (2017).
The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race, by Myles Jackson (2015) [book review], 28 Berlin Journal 74 (2015).
People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier, by Ruha Benjamin (2013) [book review], 1 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 461 (2015).
Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise, by Nicolas Rasmussen (2014) [book review], 101 Journal of American History (2015).
Rights and Practical Access to Medicine, 84 Bulletin of the World Health Organization 409 (2006).
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The King & I: Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris [book review], 19 Constitutional Commentary 813 (2002).
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