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Fatal Invention
How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Langbeschreibung
Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of the Human Genome Project, and describing how technology-driven science researchers are developing a genetic definition of race.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrefacePart I: Believing in Race in the Genomic Age1. The Invention of Race2. Separating Racial Science from RacismPart II: The New Racial Science3. Redefining Race in Genetic Terms74. Medical Stereotyping5. The Allure of Race in Biomedical Research6. Embodying RacePart III: The New Racial Technology7. Pharmacoethnicity8. Color-Coded Pills9. Race and the New Biocitizen10. Tracing Racial RootsPart IV: The New Biopolitics of Race11. Genetic Surveillance12. Biological Race in a "Postracial" AmericaConclusion: The CrossroadsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is the author of the award-winning Killing the Black Body and Shattered Bonds and is the co-editor of six books on gender and constitutional law. She serves as chair of the board of directors of the Black Women's Healthy Imperative and lives in Evanston, Illinois.
ISBN-13:
9781595588340
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.10.2012
Seiten:
390
Autor:
Dorothy Roberts
Gewicht:
446 g
Format:
211x139x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch