Catherine Bliss
Howard Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedicine, Medical Humanities, and Science and Technology Studies
Brown University
Providence
RI
United States
2011
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Catherine "Rina" Bliss is Brown University’s Howard Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedicine, Medical Humanities, and Science and Technology Studies. Her research examines the construction and naturalization of racial categories in contemporary biomedicine. Rina’s recent fieldwork explores health movements, biomedical controversies, emergent science, and racial identity. Her book Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice explores the world of elite genomic scientists as they struggle with identity and representation in their efforts to produce a new science of race.

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