{"id":15363,"date":"2020-01-08T12:12:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=15363"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T19:12:08","slug":"whats-on-your-reading-list-neena-grover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2020\/01\/whats-on-your-reading-list-neena-grover\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s on Your Reading List, Neena Grover?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We asked Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Neena Grover \u201cWhat\u2019s on Your Reading List?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo by Jennifer Coombes<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWhat does it mean to be human? Three books that I read recently provided ample perspectives on our perceived similarities and differences.\u00a0Rebecca Skloot\u2019s \u2018The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u2019 <\/strong>highlights the role of ethics and race in medicine.\u00a0What happens when we don\u2019t value people of color? Carl Zimmer\u2019s book \u2018She Has Her Mother\u2019s Laugh\u2019 <\/strong>takes historical construction of race and heredity into the current era of genomics and designer babies.\u00a0Whose genome are we examining?\u00a0Who has access to medicine?\u00a0With the voices of women often missing from the public discourse, Mary Beard\u2019s \u2018Women and Power\u2019 <\/strong>examines the historical and cultural roots of gender differences and what we can do to make the world a better place for everyone. Progress requires radical rethinking, as Mary Beard would say.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We asked Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Neena Grover \u201cWhat\u2019s on Your Reading List?\u201d \u201cWhat does it mean to be human? Three books that I read recently provided ample perspectives on our perceived similarities and differences.\u00a0Rebecca Skloot\u2019s \u2018The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u2019 highlights the role of ethics and race in medicine.\u00a0What happens when we…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-15363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-2019","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15370,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363\/revisions\/15370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}