Identity Politics and the New Genetics : : Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging / / Katharina Schramm, David Skinner, Richard Rottenburg.
Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular...
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| Superior document: | Studies of the Biosocial Society |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [s.l.] : : Berghahn Books,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Biosocial Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction Ideas in Motion
- 1 'Race' as a Social Construction in Genetics
- 2 Mobile Identities and Fixed Categories
- 3 Race, Kinship and the Ambivalence of Identity
- 4 Identity, DNA and the State in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
- 5 'Do You Have Celtic, Jewish or Germanic Roots?'
- 6 Irish DNA
- 7 Genomics en Route
- 8 Biotechnological Cults of Affliction?
- Notes on Contributors
- Index