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Race Decoded

The Genomic Fight for Social Justice

Autor: Catherine Bliss
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Stanford University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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In 2000, with the success of the Human Genome Project, scientists declared the death of race in biol...

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Autor
Catherine Bliss
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2012
Pagini
280
EAN
9780804774086
ISBN
0804774080
Enbook ID
04719047
Editura
Stanford University Press
Greutate
388
Dimensiuni
228 x 153 x 19

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In 2000, with the success of the Human Genome Project, scientists declared the death of race in biology and medicine. But within five years, many of these same scientists had reversed course and embarked upon a new hunt for the biological meaning of race. Drawing on personal interviews and life stories, "Race Decoded" takes us into the world of elite genome scientists--including Francis Collins, director of the NIH; Craig Venter, the first person to create a synthetic genome; and Spencer Wells, National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, among others--to show how and why they are formulating new ways of thinking about race. In this original exploration, Catherine Bliss reveals a paradigm shift, both at the level of science and society, from colorblindness to racial consciousness. Scientists have been fighting older understandings of race in biology while simultaneously promoting a new grand-scale program of minority inclusion. In selecting research topics or considering research design, scientists routinely draw upon personal experience of race to push the public to think about race as a biosocial entity, and even those of the most privileged racial and social backgrounds incorporate identity politics in the scientific process. Though individual scientists may view their positions differently--whether as a black civil rights activist or a white bench scientist--all stakeholders in the scientific debates are drawing on memories of racial discrimination to fashion a science-based activism to fight for social justice.

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