Osagie Obasogie
Osagie Kingsley Obasogie | |
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Born | Ohio, USA | August 21, 1977
Nationality | American |
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Osagie Kingsley Obasogie (born August 21, 1977) is a law professor and bioethicist at UC Berkeley. He is the Haas Distinguished Chair, Professor of Law at Berkeley Law, and Professor of Bioethics in the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He studies bioethics, sociology, and law, in particular race in law and medicine.
Education and academic positions
Obasogie studied sociology and political science at
Academic work
Obasogie is known for his 2013 book Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race In The Eyes Of The Blind, which describes his research on how
Obasogie has been credited, together with a few other faculty members, with causing the University of California, Berkeley to shut down a eugenics research fund that it had used to fund research by faculty members in its School of Public Health.[7]
Obasogie has been a frequent media commentator and analyst on topics like racial justice and medical ethics, publishing opinion articles in outlets such as The New York Times,[8] The Washington Post,[9] and The Atlantic.[10]
References
- ^ a b c d "Osagie K. Obasogie Professor of Biothetics". University of California, Berkeley. 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Chow, Kat (2013-09-29). "Studying How The Blind Perceive Race". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
- ^ Stafford, Zach (January 26, 2015). "When you say you 'don't see race', you're ignoring racism, not helping to solve it". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Obasogie, Osagie (January 10, 2014). "Can a Blind Person Be a Racist?". Scientific American. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Ikemoto, Lisa C. (January 1, 2016). "Review Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind". Tulsa Law Review. 51 (2): 531.
- doi:10.1086/680462.
- ^ Watanabe, Teresa (October 26, 2020). "UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after bioethicist and other faculty call it out". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Obasogie, Osagie K. (June 7, 2016). "The Supreme Court Is Afraid of Racial Justice". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ Obasogie, Osagie K. (June 5, 2020). "Police killing black people is a pandemic, too". The Washington Post. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Articles by Osagie K. Obasogie". The Atlantic. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
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