Race and the genetic revolution : science, myth, and culture / edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan ; with a foreword by Evelynn M. Hammonds.

Date:
[2011], ©2011
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

xii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes

"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 ... [et al.] -- The elusive variability of race / Patricia J. Williams -- Race, genetics, and the regulatory need for race impact assessments / Osagie K. Obasogie.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • 9780231156967
  • 0231156960
  • 9780231156974
  • 0231156979
  • 9780231527699
  • 0231527691