# Evelynn M. Hammonds Publications ## expand\_more ##### Most Recent 2012 Lundy Braun and Evelynn Hammonds, “ The Dilemma of Classification: The Past in the Present” in Wailoo, Nelson, et al, editors, Genetics and the Unsettled Past (Rutgers University Press, 2011) 2008 Lundy Braun and Evelynn Hammonds, Race, “Population, and Genomics: Africa as laboratory,” Social Science and Medicine, vol. 30 (2008) pp. 1-9 2007 Evelynn Hammonds (w co-authors) “Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?” PLOS Medicine, vol. 4, issue 9, (Sept. 2007) e271 2005 “Straw men and their Followers: The return of biological race” published in on line web forum on Race and Genomics by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) at The Use of Race Variables in Genetic Studies of Complex Traits and the Goal of Reducing Health Disparities: A Transdisciplinary Perspective” (with co-authors) American Psychologist, vol. 60, no. 1 January 2005. 2003 Conversation on Feminist Science Studies,” with B. Subramanian*,* Signs: Journal of Women in Society. ##### **Books** 2011 The Harvard Sampler,: Liberal Education for the Twenty-first Century, edited Jennifer M. Shephard, Stephen M. Kosslyn, and Evelynn M. Hammonds (Harvard University Press) 2008 The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics ,co-authored with Rebecca Herzig (MIT Press) The Logic of Difference: A History of Race in Science and Medicine in the United States, 1850-1990 – in progress Consulting Editor, Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society (forthcoming from Oxford University Press) 1999 Childhood’s Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930 (Johns Hopkins University Press) [](http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/nature-difference) ![natureofdifferencebook.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6486/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/racegendersciencemedicine/files/natureofdifferencebook.jpg?itok=AAi5r37y)