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Osagie K. Obasogie

Journal Articles

'Race' Ipsa Loquitur: How Blind People Understand Race and Its Implications for Equal Protection, 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. ___ (forthcoming 2012).
Moore is Less: Why the Development of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Might Radically Upend Property Law Concerning Human Tissues As We Know It (with Helen Theung), 2012 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2012).
The Return of Biological Race? Regulating Race and Genetics Through Administrative Agency Race Impact Assessments, 21 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2012).
All That Glitters Isn't Gold (with Troy Duster), 41 Hastings Center Rep. 15 (Sep./Oct. 2011). FULLTEXT
Do Blind People See Race? Social, Legal, and Theoretical Considerations, 44 Law & Soc'y Rev. 585 (2010). FULLTEXT
Prisoners as Human Subjects: A Closer Look at the Institute of Medicine's Recommendations to Loosen Current Restrictions on Using Prisoners in Scientific Research, 6 Stan. J. C.R. & C.L. 41 (2010). FULLTEXT
Beyond Best Practices: Strict Scrutiny as a Regulatory Model for Race-Specific Medicines, 36 J.L. Med. & Ethics 491 (2008). FULLTEXT
Race-Specific Drugs: Regulatory Trends and Public Policy (with David E. Winikoff), 29 Trends in Pharmacological Sci. 277 (2008). URL
Anything But a Hypocrite: Interactional Musings on Race, Colorblindness, and the Redemption of Strom Thurmond, 14 Yale J.L. & Feminism 451 (2006). FULLTEXT

Chapters In Books

Race, Genetics, and the Regulatory Need for Race Impact Assessments, in Race and the Genetic Revolution, Science, Myth, and Culture 255 (Sheldon Krimsky & Kathleen Sloan eds. 2011). URL
Race in Law and Society: A Critique, in Race, Law, and Society 445 (Ian Haney Lopez ed. 2006). URL

Book Reviews

Life, Monetized, 10 Am. Prospect 70 (Nov. 2011) (reviewing Harriet A. Washington, Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future (2011)). URL

Newspaper & Magazine Articles

Black Salt: Should the Government Single Out African-Americans for Low-sodium Diets?, Slate, Apr. 18, 2011. URL
Clinical Trials on Trial, New Scientist, Jan. 22, 2011, at 24. URL
Human Subjects Research With Prisoners: Putting the Ethical Question in Context (with Keramet Reiter), 25 Bioethics 55, 2010.
The Dangers of Growing DNA Databases, L.A. Times, Apr. 25, 2010. URL
When Scientists Pick a Fight With the Law, Sci. Progress, Apr. 7, 2010. URL
Return of the Race Myth, New Scientist, Jul. 4, 2009, at 22. CATALOG URL
Ten Years Later: Jesse Gelsinger's Death and Human Subjects Protection, Bioethics F., Oct. 22, 2009. URL
The Color of Our Genes: Balancing the Promise and Risks of Racial Categories in Human Biotechnology, Sci. Progress, Jun. 15, 2009. URL
Back From the Dead: What Dog Cloning Means for Our Human Future, AlterNet, Jun. 16, 2008. URL
'Wal-Martization' of Embryos, Boston Globe, Feb. 1, 2007. URL
Food from Cloned Animals—A Bait and Switch? (with Pete Shanks), S.F. Chron., Oct. 5, 2007. URL
Hypertension: What Oprah Doesn't Know, L.A. Times, May 17, 2007. URL
Medical Exploitation (with Allen M. Hornblum), Philadelphia Inquirer, Sep. 13, 2007. URL
Picking Nits or Learning Lessons? Defensiveness on Display in Gene Therapy Death (with Marcy Darnovsky), Bioethics F., Sep. 17, 2007. URL
Racial Alchemy, New Scientist, Aug. 18, 2007, at 17. CATALOG URL
The Rebirth of a Nation, Colorlines, Sep./Oct., 2007, at 25. URL
Wedge Issue is Back on the Table (with Parita Shah), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 17, 2007. URL
Of Mice, Men, and Stem Cell Research, S.F. Chron., Feb. 20, 2006. URL
When is the Racial Pharmacy Bad Medicine? (with David Winickoff), Bioethics F., Jul. 19, 2006. URL
Designing Your Own Baby, Boston Globe, Aug. 8, 2005, at A11. URL
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, S.F. Chron., Jul. 5, 2005. URL