Tabula Raza - Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science

List of contents

Contents

Preface: Skin and Code 
Abbreviations 

Introduction: America and the Tabula Raza 

1. Genomic World Building: The Mundus Novus of the Twenty-first Century 
2. From Mundus to Model to Mundus Again: The Art of Ancestry between Worlds 
3. Making Race: Pharmacogenetics and Its Necessary People 
4. For the Love of Blackness: When Science Can Feel Like Home 
5. Look, a Black Guy! (With a Genetic Finding) 
6. A Family Affair: The Barbed Bonds of Relationship 
7. Sci Non-Fi: Cells, Genes, and the Future Tense of “Diversity
8. Seeing Ghosts: From the Excavated Past to the Hauntings of the Present 
Conclusion 

Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Product details

• Authors: Duana Fullwiley, Fullwiley Duana
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.2024
• EAN: 9780520401174
• ISBN: 978-0-520-40117-4
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, United States of America, USA, Genetics (non-medical)