[Hamp-law] Reminder: Genes, Race and Medicine--Kahn Lecture at Hampshire College

[Jennifer Hamilton]

Jonathan Kahn will lecture on “Genes, Race and Medicine” at Hampshire 
College on March 10 at 5 p.m. in the Adele Simmons Hall auditorium. The 
public is invited.

Dr. Kahn, an associate professor at Hamline University School of Law, 
specializes in biotechnology’s implications for our ideas of identity, 
rights, and citizenship.

He has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health 
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2007 he received a 
grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute’s (NHGRI) 
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications research program for a two-year 
project in which he is exploring ethical and legal ramifications of the 
increasing use of racial and ethnic categories in the context of gene 
patenting and drug development.

His numerous articles on law, genetics, and identity have included “Race 
in a Bottle,” published in the August 2007 Scientific American, and “How 
a Drug Becomes ‘Ethnic’” in the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & 
Ethics.

Sponsored by the Hampshire College Law Program, the School of Social 
Sciences at Hampshire College, and the Hampshire College Pre-Law 
Society. For more information, please contact Jennifer Hamilton, 
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at jhamilton at hampshire.edu 
<mailto:jhamilton at hampshire.edu> or at (413) 559-5402.

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Jennifer A. Hamilton
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
Division of Social Sciences
Hampshire College
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002

(413) 559-5402 (o)
(413) 559-5620 (f)
jhamilton at hampshire.edu