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Identity politics and the new genetics : re/creating categories of difference and belonging /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2012.
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| Colección: | Studies of the Biosocial Society ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Race" as a social construction in genetics
- Mobile identities and fixed categories : forensic DNA and the politics of racialized data
- Race, kinship and the ambivalence of identity
- Identity, DNA and the state in post-dictatorship Argentina
- "Do you have Celtic, Jewish or Germanic roots?" Applied Swiss history before and after DNA
- Irish DNA : making connections and making distinctions in Y-chromosome surname studies
- Genomics en route : ancestry, heritage and the politics of identity across the Black Atlantic
- Biotechnological cults of affliction? Race, rationality and enchantment in personal genomic histories.