Define racial science, and discuss how social bias was supported by scientific research. Scientific racism formed the intellectual basis for much of eugenics and supported centuries of racist assumptions and experiments.
Read: Allan M.Brandt, “Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskeegee Syphilis Study” and https://www.tuskegee.edu/about-us/centers-of-excellence/bioethics-center/about-the-usphs-syphilis-study; Charlotte Paul and Barbara Brookes, “The rationalization of unethical research: Define racial science, and discuss how social bias was supported by scientific research. Scientific racism formed the intellectual basis for much of eugenics and supported centuries of racist assumptions and […]