A Critique of the Bourgeois Concepts of Race and Constitution in Classical Medicine. Presented at the Jefferson School Conference on "Science and the Scientist in the Fight for Peace and Socialism." June 23-25, 1950.
[New York?]: n.p., [1950]. A dense Marxist critique of bourgeois race essentialism and the subsequent white chauvinism and racism that distorts science and medical research. The authors views race through an anthropological, serological, and physical lens and "criticize Dobzhansky's genetic definition of race, as presented in Heredity Race and Society, while endorsing Lamarckism, and praising the work of Haldane and Lysenko" (deJong-Lambert, p. 113). One of the authors was almost certainly Bernard Friedman who taught biology at the Jefferson School of Social Science where Lysenkoism "had an extensive influence upon the broader curriculum" (ibid). In the section on the political implications of race as a social category, the authors describe racism in the medical profession, including "venereal disease as directly used by the medical profession to degrade the Negro people," the classism of M.D. accreditation, discrimination in medical education and medical care, etc.
Side-stapled, 11” x 8 ½” pulp paper covers, 81 leaves mimeographed from typescript on rectos only. Covers completely detached and were at one time crudely bound into manila folder; text block is still firmly bound and unmarked. No record for this title found by us in Worldcat, and the only reference to it was in William deJong-Labert's book, The Cold War Politics of Genetic Research: An Introduction to the Lysenko Affair (2012). The copy he studied was in the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives. New York University. Item #11687
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