Race and the genetic revolution : science, myth, and culture

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Race and the genetic revolution : science, myth, and culture

edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan ; with a foreword by Evelynn M. Hammonds

Columbia University Press, c2011

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

Available at  / 3 libraries

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"A project of the Council for Responsible Genetics"

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • 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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