Genetics and the unsettled past : the collision of DNA, race, and history /
Genetics and the Unsettled Past considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial trends in genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history. Essays by scho...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2012.
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| Online Access: |
Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780813553368 0813553369 1280492597 9781280492594 9786613587824 6613587826 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Genetics and the Unsettled Past considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial trends in genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history. Essays by scholars across a wide range of disciplines-biology, history, cultural studies, law, medicine, anthropology, ethnic studies, sociology-explore the emerging and often contested connections among race, DNA, and history. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 357 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Series: | Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity.
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