Research Catalog

Title

The Human Genome Diversity Project : an ethnography of scientific practice / Amade M'charek.

Author

M'charek, Amade.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2005.

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Description

x, 213 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• "The Human Genome Diversity Project was launched in 1991 by a group of population geneticists whose aim was to map genetic diversity in hundreds of human populations by tracing the similarities and differences between them. It quickly became controversial and was accused of racism and "bad science" because of the special interest paid to sampling cell material from isolated and indigenous populations. The author spent a year carrying out participant observation in two of the laboratories involved in analysis of genetic diversity and provides fascinating insights into the daily routines and technologies used in those laboratories and also into issues of normativity, standardization and naturalization.
• Drawing on debates and theoretical perspectives from across the social sciences, M'charek explores the relationship between the tools used to produce knowledge and the knowledge thus produced in a way that illuminates the Diversity Project but also contributes to our broader understanding of the contemporary life sciences and their social implications."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in society and the life sciences

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in society and the life sciences.

Subjects

• Population genetics
• Human Genome Diversity Project
• Ethische aspecten
• Biodiversiteit
• Human Genome Project
• Genetica
• Human genetics > Variation
• Human genome
• Genetics, Population
• Genetic Variation
• Genetic Research
• Ethnicity > genetics
• Genome, Human
• Population genetics > Research > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-207) and index.

Contents

Technologies of population: making differences and similarities between Turkish and Dutch males -- Ten chimpanzees in a laboratory: how a human genetic marker may become a good genetic marker for typing chimpanzees -- Naturalization of a reference sequence: Anderson or the mitochondrial Eve of modern genetics -- The traffic in males and other stories on the enactment of the sexes in studies of genetic lineage -- Technologies of similarities and differences, or how to do politics with DNA.

ISBN

• 0521832225
• 9780521832229
• 0521539870
• 9780521539876

LCCN

• 2004052648
• 9780521539876

OCLC

• ocm55600894
• 55600894
• SCSB-9625104

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library