Genetics and the Unsettled Past The Collision of DNA, Race, and History |
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| Editor:
| Wailoo, Keith
Nelson, Alondra
Lee, Catherine |
| Series title: | Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-5254-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $150.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.