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  1. The Case against Biological Realism about Race: From Darwin to the Post-Genomic Era.Koffi N. Maglo - 2011 - Perspectives on Science 19 (4):361-390.
    [T]he races of man are not sufficiently distinct to inhabit the same country without fusion; and the absence of fusion affords the usual and best test of specific distinctiveness.The subspecies is merely a strictly utilitarian classificatory device for the pigeonholing of population samples.Did human evolutionary history lead to a natural division of our species into subspecies, the so-called biological human races? The issue seemed to have been beaten to death during the second half of the 20th century. But the situation (...)
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    Genomics and the Conundrum of Race: Some Epistemic and Ethical Considerations.Koffi N. Maglo - 2010 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 53 (3):357-372.
    The utility of a notion testifies not to its clarity but rather to the philosophic importance of clarifying it. Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The genomic revolution raised hopes that the putative utility of race in biomedicine could be grounded in the view that race has a biological reality and scientific validity (Burchard et al. 2003; Risch et al. 2002). However, the rebuttal of the contention (...)
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    Researching vs. Reifying Race: The Case of Obesity Research.Koffi N. Maglo & Lisa J. Martin - 2012 - Humana Mente 5 (22).
    This paper deals with the reification of the concept of race in biomedical research. It combines philosophical analysis and a quantitative approach to investigate the ways in which the reification fallacy may occur in race research, thereby providing theoretical legitimacy to the misuse of scientific research. It examines the prevalence of obesity in the US and some African countries as an empirical case to guide a conceptual analysis. The paper suggests that, to avoid the reification of race, researchers need to (...)
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    The reception of Newton's gravitational theory by huygens, varignon, and maupertuis: How normal science may be revolutionary.Koffi Maglo - 2003 - Perspectives on Science 11 (2):135-169.
    : This paper first discusses the current historical and philosophical framework forged during the last century to account for both the history and the epistemic status of Newton's theory of general gravitation. It then examines the conflict surrounding this theory at the close of the seventeenth century and the first steps towards the revolutionary shift in rational mechanics in the eighteenth century. From a historical point of view, it shows the crucial contribution of the Cartesian mechanistic philosophy and Leibnizian analytic (...)
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    Group-Based and Personalized Care in an Age of Genomic and Evidence-Based Medicine: A Reappraisal.Koffi N. Maglo - 2012 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 55 (1):137-154.
    Individualized care and equality of care remain two imperatives for formulating any scientifically and morally informed public health policy. Yet both continue to be elusive goals, even in the age of genomics, proteomics, and evidence-based medicine. Nonetheless, with the rapid growth and improvement of human biotechnologies, the need to individualize therapies while allocating medical care equally may result partly from our biological constitution. Human beings are all unique, and their biological differences significantly influence variability in disease causation and therapeutic response (...)
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    BiDil in the Clinic: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Physicians’ Prescription Patterns of a Race-Based Therapy.Koffi N. Maglo, Jack Rubinstein, Bin Huang & Richard F. Ittenbach - 2014 - AJOB Empirical Bioethics 5 (4):37-52.
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    Force, Mathematics, and Physics in Newton's Principia: A New Approach to Enduring Issues.Koffi Maglo - 2007 - Science in Context 20 (4):571-600.
    ArgumentThis paper investigates the conceptual treatment and mathematical modeling of force in Newton's Principia. It argues that, contrary to currently dominant views, Newton's concept of force is best understood as a physico-mathematical construct with theoretical underpinnings rather than a “mathematical construct” or an ontologically “neutral” concept. It uses various philosophical and historical frameworks to clarify interdisciplinary issues in the history of science and draws upon the distinction between axiomatic systems in mathematics and physics, as well as discovery patterns in science. (...)
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