Sick of Race: How Racism Harms Health and Misleads Medicine

Dr. Clarence C. Gravlee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida, where he also holds affiliate appointments in the Center for Latin American Studies, the African American Studies Program, and the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations. Gravlee is a medical anthropologist who integrates methods and theory from the social and biological sciences. His research seeks to explain and redress the health effects of systemic racism, with an emphasis on hypertension in the African Diaspora. Gravlee is former Editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly (2013–2016) and co-editor (with H. Russell Bernard) of the Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. His research has appeared in scholarly journals such as American Anthropologist, American Journal of Human Biology, Social Forces, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, and American Journal of Public Health. He has also written for public audiences in venues such as Scientific American and Somatosphere.