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The material gene : gender, race, and heredity after the human genome project /

In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a "draft" of the human genome, the sequence information of nearly all 3 billion base pairs of DNA. In the wake of this major scientific accomplishment, the focus on the genetic basis of disease has sparked ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Happe, Kelly E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Colección:Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ideology and the new rhetoric of genomics
  • Heredity as ideology : situating genomics historically
  • Genomics and the reproductive body
  • Genomics and the racial body
  • Genomics and the polluted body
  • Toward a biosociality without genes.