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Under-represented groups face chronic barriers, creating psychological — and physical — effects. The scientific community must ease this burden. Under-represented groups face chronic barriers, creating psychological — and physical — effects. The scientific community must ease this burden.
The public-health professor Arline T. Geronimus has spent a forty-year career researching how inequality takes a “weathering” toll on the body.
Jay Shulkin, a neuroscientist and philosopher of prodigious curiosity and energy, has died at age 70 of hepatic cancer.
People usually ignore the fly because they do not appreciate its myriad mysteries. To change this is the challenge and the joy of science writing.
Written by Ana Sandoiu on February 26, 2021 Repeated exposure to socioeconomic adversity, political marginalization, racism, and perpetual discrimination can harm health. In this Special Feature, we explore this harmful effect, which is known as weathering. San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images If there is one thing that the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests last year have made abundantly clear, it is this: Racism kills. But racism and racial discrimination do not just jeopardize people’s lives directly, through violent acts and hate crimes ...