Breaking Up with Biomedical Essentialism w/ Joanna Wuest

Dead Pundits Society

The Anti-Essentialism Series Part Deux kicks off with a discussion of biomedical essentialism and the increasing categorization of the human species into ever-meaningless classifications. Joanna Wuest joins us to break down the philosophy, the science, and the history of biomedical essentialism. We reveal the political uses and abuses of these categories and how the growing movement for universal social goods appears to be overturning these essentialist worldviews. SHARE this episode (and get a shoutout on-air): Retweet: https://twitter.com/DeadPundits/status/1222914749266001920 Share: https://www.facebook.com/DeadPunditsSociety (Link at top of page) Joanna's article can be found here: https://nonsite.org/article/the-racial-disparity-politics-of-biomedical-research-disaggregating-categories-into-new-essentialisms *** Become a member of DPS today for access to our weekly subscriber episodes: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits ***