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

List of contents

Preface

Part I: Believing in Race in the Genomic Age
1. The Invention of Race
2. Separating Racial Science from Racism

Part II: The New Racial Science
3. Redefining Race in Genetic Terms7
4. Medical Stereotyping
5. The Allure of Race in Biomedical Research
6. Embodying Race

Part III: The New Racial Technology
7. Pharmacoethnicity
8. Color-Coded Pills
9. Race and the New Biocitizen
10. Tracing Racial Roots

Part IV: The New Biopolitics of Race
11. Genetic Surveillance
12. Biological Race in a "Postracial" America

Conclusion: The Crossroads
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy Roberts, Dorothy E. Roberts, Roberts Dorothy
• 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: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung, Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, Cultural Studies, SCIENCE / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, Science, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SCIENCE / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination