Fatal Invention

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy Roberts, Dorothy E. Roberts
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2012
• EAN: 9781595588340
• ISBN: 978-1-59558-834-0
• No. of pages: 390
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung, Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, Science, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics