What's the Use of Race?
Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference
How race as a category—reinforced by new discoveries in genetics—is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.The post-civil rights era perspective of many scientists and scholars was that race was nothing more than a social construction. Recently, however, the relevance of race as a social, legal, and medical category has been reinvigorated by science, especially by discoveries in genetics. Although in 2000 the Human Genome Project reported that humans shared 99.9 percent of their genetic code, scientists soon began to argue that the degree of variation was actually greater than this, and that this variation maps…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Jones, David S. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-262-26571-3
- EAN: 9780262265713
- Produktnummer: 27874951
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 801 KB
- Abbildungen: 7 B&W ILLUS.
Über den Autor
Ian Whitmarsh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.David S. Jones is Associate Professor of History and Culture of Science and Technology at MIT.
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