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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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"A project of the Council for Responsible Genetics." |
| Contents |
A short history of the race concept / Michael Yudell -- Natural selection, the human genome, and the idea of race / Robert Pollack -- Racial disparities in databanking of DNA profiles / Michael T. Risher -- Prejudice, stigma, and DNA databases / Helen Wallace -- Ancestry testing and DNA : uses, limits, and caveat emptor / Troy Duster -- Can DNA witness race? Forensic uses of an imperfect ancestry testing technology / Duana Fullwiley -- BiDil and racialized medicine / Jonathan Kahn -- Evolutionary versus racial medicine : why it matters? / Joseph L. Graves Jr. -- Myth and mystification : the science of race and IQ / Pilar N. Ossorio -- Intelligence, race, and genetics / Robert J. Sternberg [and others] -- The elusive variability of race / Patricia J. Williams -- Race, genetics, and the regulatory need for race impact assessments / Osagie K. Obasogie. |
| Summary |
Leading scholars from a range of disciplines, including law, biology, sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology, examine the impact of modern genetics on the concept of race. Does mapping the human genome reconstitute a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories? Contributors trace the interplay between genetics and race in forensic DNA databanks, the biology of intelligence, DNA ancestry markers, and racialized medicine. Each essay explores commonly held and unexamined assumptions and misperceptions about race in both science and popular culture. Divid. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human population genetics.
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Human population genetics. |
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Race.
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Race. |
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Racial Groups -- genetics. |
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Genetics. |
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Evolution, Molecular. |
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Genetic Variation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Krimsky, Sheldon.
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Sloan, Kathleen, 1958-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231156967 0231156960 (DLC) 2011021226 |
| ISBN |
0231527691 (electronic book) |
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9780231527699 (electronic book) |
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9780231156967 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231156960 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231156974 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0231156979 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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