Research Catalog

Title

Race and the genetic revolution : science, myth, and culture / edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan ; with a foreword by Evelynn M. Hammonds.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Krimsky, Sheldon
• Sloan, Kathleen, 1958-
• Council for Responsible Genetics.

Description

xii, 296 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Each essay explores commonly held and unexamined assumptions and misperceptions about race in science and popular culture. The collection begins with the historical origins and current uses of the concept of race in science. It follows with an analysis of the role of race in DNA databanks and racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Essays then consider the rise of recreational genetics in the form of for-profit testing of genetic ancestry and the introduction of racialized medicine, specifically through an FDA-approved heart drug called BiDil, marketed to African American men. Concluding sections discuss the contradictions between our scientific and cultural understandings of race and the continuing significance of race in educational and criminal justice policy. From publisher description.

Subjects

• Racial Groups
• Racial Groups > genetics
• Race
• Human population genetics
• Genetics
• Evolution, Molecular
• Genetic Variation

Note

• "A project of the Council for Responsible Genetics."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780231156967 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231156960 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231156974 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0231156979 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780231527699 (ebook)
• 0231527691 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011021226

OCLC

• 707962785
• SCSB-11982407

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library