Race and the Genetic Revolution
Science, Myth, and Culture
Do advances in genomic biology create a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories? Leading scholars in law, medicine, biology, sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology examine the impact of modern genetics on the concept of race. Contributors trace the interplay between genetics and race in forensic DNA databanks, the biology of intelligence, DNA ancestry markers, and racialized medicine. Each essay explores commonly held and unexamined assumptions and misperceptions about race in science and popular culture.This collection begins with the historical origins and current uses of the concept of race in science. It foll…
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Weitere Autoren: Sloan, Kathleen (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-52769-9
- EAN: 9780231527699
- Produktnummer: 22650616
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 16'027 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 illus; 4 tables
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Edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan
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