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Sarah S. Richardson

Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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  • Sarah S. Richardson is Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. A historian and philosopher of science, Richardson is a leading scholar of gender and science whose work argues for conceptual rigor and social responsibility in scientific research on sex, gender, sexuality, and reproduction. She directs the Harvard GenderSci Lab, a collaborative, interdisciplinary research lab dedicated to generating...

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Recent Publications

  • Intersectionality as Live Theory and Practice in the Biomedical Sciences
  • Law, policy, biology, and sex: Critical issues for researchers
  • Why 'sex as a biological variable' conflicts with precision medicine initiatives
  • Sex disparities in COVID-19 mortality vary considerably across time: The case of New York State
  • Sex disparities in COVID-19 outcomes in the United States: Quantifying and contextualizing variation
  • Sex Contextualism
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@genderscilab

  • k_deleondejesus
    k_deleondejesus officially published as of this morning! "Integrating LGBTQIA + Community Member Perspectives into Medical Education" (a revolutionary collaborative research paper that centered a community advisory board over traditional extractive research) is out today! t.co/h6b4l83UVB
    2 days 5 hours ago.
  • MiriamMiyagi
    MiriamMiyagi Hey #Evol2022! Are you curious how claims of genetic architecture differences between males and females are made? Interested in the intersection of gender, sex, and genomics? Come say hi at the Saturday poster session (board #110)! @genderscilab t.co/z05uDdnPQ3
    1 week 1 day ago.
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The Maternal Imprint

Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology After the Genome, ed. Sarah S. Richardson and Hallam Stevens

Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age

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