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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Happe, Kelly E.
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York [N.Y.] : New York University Press, [2013]
Series:Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.