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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krimsky, Sheldon.

Sloan, Kathleen, 1958-

Council for Responsible Genetics.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human population genetics.

Race.

Racial Groups--genetics.

Genetics.

Evolution, Molecular.

Genetic Variation.

Medical Subjects:

Racial Groups--genetics.

Genetics.

Evolution, Molecular.

Genetic Variation.

Physical Description:

xii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Do Advances In Genomic Biology create a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories?.. Leading scholars in law, medicine, biology, sociolo-gy, history, "anthropology, and psychology.examine the impact of modern genetics on the concept of race Contributors trace the interplay between genetics and race in, forensic Dna databanks, the biology of intelligence, DNA ancestry markers, and racialized medicine, Each essay explores commonly held and unexamined assumptions and misperceptions about race in science and popular culture.

This collectiori begins with the. historical origins and current uses of the concept of "race" in science. It fol lows with an analysis, of the role of race in Dna data-banks and racial disparities, in. the criminal justice system: Essays then consider the rise of recreation-al 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. Con-cluding sections discuss the contradictions between our scientific and cultural understandings of race and the continuing significance of race in educational and criminal justice policy. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

"A project of the Council for Responsible Genetics."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231156967

0231156960

9780231156974

0231156979

9780231527699

0231527691

OCLC:

707962785