What's the use of race? : modern governance and the biology of difference /

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How race as a category-reinforced by new discoveries in genetics-is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Whitmarsh, Ian, 1975-, Jones, David S. (David Shumway)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Genetics > Social aspects.
Racism.
Human genetics > Variation.
Prejudices.
Racial Groups > genetics
Genetic Variation
Ethnicity > genetics
Prejudice
Génétique > Aspect social.
Racisme.
Variabilité génétique.
Préjugés.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Governance and the uses of race / Ian Whitmarsh and David S. Jones
  • What's the use of race in presenting forensic DNA evidence in court? / Jonathan Kahn
  • Forensic DNA phenotyping : reinforcing race in law enforcement / Pamela Sankar
  • Beyond inclusion, beyond difference : the biopolitics of health / Steven Epstein
  • Arguments against the use of radicalized categories as genetic variables in biomedical research : what are they, and why are they being ignored? / Simon M. Outram and George T.H. Ellison
  • From self-identity to genotype : the past, present, and future of ethnic categories in postgenomic science / Richard Tutton [and others]
  • The genomics of difference and the politics of race in Canada / Amy Hinterberger
  • Race and ancestry : operationalizing populations in human genetic variation studies / Joan H. Fujimura [and others]
  • Use of racial and ethnic identity in medical evaluations and treatments / Jay S. Kaufman and Richard S. Cooper
  • What's the use of culture? : health disparities and the development of culturally competent health care / Angela C. Jenks
  • The science and epidemiology of racism and health : racial/ethnic categories, biological expressions of racism, and the embodiment of inequality : an ecosocial perspective / Nancy Krieger
  • Race and the new biocitizen / Dorothy Roberts.

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