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The work Bowman conducted throughout his career contributed significantly to various disciplines, including our understanding of biology, minority healthcare, and eugenics.
The work Bowman conducted throughout his career contributed significantly to various disciplines, including our understanding of biology, minority healthcare, and eugenics.
His early career was dedicated to research regarding genetics and pathology, which he conducted worldwide. In doing so, he expanded our understanding of the genetic component of various inherited blood diseases, including favism and sickle cell anemia. Additionally, he investigated how organisms are affected by and prevent the harmful effects of somatic mutations. This laid the foundation for his subsequent work on the genetics of race.
Belonging to a minority group himself, Dr. Bowman highlights the importance of addressing the healthcare and treatment of the minority groups within America. He focuses on the discrimination faced by minority groups in terms of sickle hemoglobin, prenatal diagnosis, and of employees in the work environment. (idk what else to write, pls add on if u have anything)
As a result of Bowman's personal experience with marginalization and his accumulated expertise in the fields of genetics and pathology, he spoke against eugenic practices. In particular he emphasized the potential for and experienced harm as a result of public screening policies and other practices and policies that facilitated eugenic principles.
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