This discourse endorses the theory that higher levels of testosterone, which has historically been a marker used to designate prostate cancer risk, must differ between black and white men and thus explain the persistence of prostate cancer disparities between these two groups. More specifically, biomedical researchers claim that racial differences in testosterone help explain racial disparities in prostate cancer between black and white men. Building from this foundational work, this project explores how testosterone has been both gendered and racialized by scientists over the course of the 20th-century. While testosterone is widely conceptual-ized as a molecular marker of masculinity by both scientific and popular accounts, femi-nist science studies scholars have documented how these claims are both misleading and dangerous. Description In this dissertation, I examine how race has been molecularized through the hormone tes-tosterone and the impact that this process has had on the construction of racial disparities in prostate cancer between black and white men.
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