Race and the Genetic Revolution : : Science, Myth, and Culture /

Race and the Genetic Revolution : : Science, Myth, and Culture / / ed. by Kathleen Sloan, Sheldon Krimsky.

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 gen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Duster, Troy,
Fullwiley, Duana,
Graves, Joseph L.,
Grigorenko, Elena L.,
Hammonds, Evelynn,
Kahn, Jonathan,
Kidd, Kenneth K.,
Krimsky, Sheldon,
Obasogie, Osagie K.,
Ossorio, Pilar N.,
Pollack, Robert,
Risher, Michael T.,
Sloan, Kathleen,
Stemler, Steven E.,
Sternberg, Robert J.,
Wallace, Helen,
Williams, Patricia J.,
Yudell, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Krimsky, Sheldon,
Sloan, Kathleen,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 1 illus; 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: How Science Embraced the Racialization of Human Populations
  • Part I: Science and Race
  • 1. A Short History of the Race Concept
  • 2. Natural Selection, the Human Genome, and the Idea of Race
  • Part II: Forensic DNA Databases, Race, and the Criminal Justice System
  • 3. Racial Disparities in Databanking of DNA Profiles
  • 4. Prejudice, Stigma, and DNA Databases
  • Part III: Ancestry Testing
  • 5. Ancestry Testing and DNA
  • 6. Can DNA "Witness" Race?
  • Part IV: Racialized Medicine
  • 7. Bidil and Racialized Medicine
  • 8. Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine
  • Part V: Intelligence and Race
  • 9. Myth and Mystification
  • 10. Intelligence, Race, and Genetics
  • Part VI: Contemporary Culture, Race, and Genetics
  • 11. The Elusive Variability of Race
  • 12. Race, Genetics, and the Regulatory Need for Race Impact Assessments
  • Conclusion
  • Contributors
  • Index

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