Race to the Finish : : Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics / / Jenny Reardon.

In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "isolated indigenous populations." Their initiative, which became known as the Human Genome Diversity Project, generated early enthusiasm from...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2005
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:In-Formation
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Post-World War II Expert Discourses on Race
  • Chapter 3. In the Legacy of Darwin
  • Chapter 4. Diversity Meets Anthropology
  • Chapter 5. Group Consent and the Informed, Volitional Subject
  • Chapter 6. Discourses of Participation
  • Chapter 7. Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Methodological Appendix
  • Appendix B. Code for Interviews
  • Appendix C. Human Genome Diversity Project Time Line
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter