Research Catalog

Title

What's the use of race? : modern governance and the biology of difference / edited by Ian Whitmarsh and David S. Jones.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.

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Additional Authors

• Whitmarsh, Ian, 1975-
• Jones, David S. (David Shumway)

Description

viii, 303 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

This work explores how race as a category - reinforced by new discoveries in genetics - is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.

Subjects

• Racial Groups > genetics
• Prejudice
• Ethnicity > genetics
• Genetic Variation
• Genetics > Political aspects
• Race > Political aspects
• Race > Social aspects
• Racism
• Genetics > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Governance and the uses of race / Ian Whitmarsh and David S. Jones -- What's the use of race in presenting forensic DNA evidence in court? / Jonathan Kahn -- Forensic DNA phenotyping : reinforcing race in law enforcement / Pamela Sankar -- Beyond inclusion, beyond difference : the biopolitics of health / Steven Epstein -- Arguments against the use of radicalized categories as genetic variables in biomedical research : what are they, and why are they being ignored? / Simon M. Outram and George T.H. Ellison -- From self-identity to genotype : the past, present, and future of ethnic categories in postgenomic science / Richard Tutton [and others] -- The genomics of difference and the politics of race in Canada / Amy Hinterberger -- Race and ancestry : operationalizing populations in human genetic variation studies / Joan H. Fujimura [and others] -- Use of racial and ethnic identity in medical evaluations and treatments / Jay S. Kaufman and Richard S. Cooper -- What's the use of culture? : health disparities and the development of culturally competent health care / Angela C. Jenks -- The science and epidemiology of racism and health : racial/ethnic categories, biological expressions of racism, and the embodiment of inequality : an ecosocial perspective / Nancy Krieger -- Race and the new biocitizen / Dorothy Roberts.

ISBN

• 9780262514248
• 0262514249

LCCN

^^2009037118

OCLC

• 444107698
• SCSB-12306887

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library