What's the Use of Race? : Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference.
Whitmarsh, Ian.
What's the Use of Race? : Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (313 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Governance and the Uses of Race -- Ruling -- 2 What ' s the Use of Race in Presenting Forensic DNA Evidence in Court? -- 3 Forensic DNA Phenotyping: Reinforcing Race in Law Enforcement -- 4 Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Difference: The Biopolitics of Health -- Knowing -- 5 Arguments against the Use of Racialized Categories as Genetic Variables in Biomedical Research: What Are They, and Why Are They Being Ignored? -- 6 From Self-Identity to Genotype: The Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Categories in Postgenomic Science -- 7 The Genomics of Difference and the Politics of Race in Canada -- 8 Race and Ancestry: Operationalizing Populations in Human Genetic Variation Studies -- Caring -- 9 Use of Racial and Ethnic Identity in Medical Evaluations and Treatments -- 10 What ' s the Use of Culture?: Health Disparities and the Development of Culturally Competent Health Care -- 11 The Science and Epidemiology of Racism and Health: Racial/Ethnic Categories, Biological Expressions of Racism, and the Embodiment of Inequality - an Ecosocial Perspective -- Looking Forward -- 12 Race and the New Biocitizen -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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.
9780262266017
Genetics-Social aspects.
Racism.
Electronic books.
QH438.7.W53 2010
323.11
What's the Use of Race? : Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (313 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Governance and the Uses of Race -- Ruling -- 2 What ' s the Use of Race in Presenting Forensic DNA Evidence in Court? -- 3 Forensic DNA Phenotyping: Reinforcing Race in Law Enforcement -- 4 Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Difference: The Biopolitics of Health -- Knowing -- 5 Arguments against the Use of Racialized Categories as Genetic Variables in Biomedical Research: What Are They, and Why Are They Being Ignored? -- 6 From Self-Identity to Genotype: The Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Categories in Postgenomic Science -- 7 The Genomics of Difference and the Politics of Race in Canada -- 8 Race and Ancestry: Operationalizing Populations in Human Genetic Variation Studies -- Caring -- 9 Use of Racial and Ethnic Identity in Medical Evaluations and Treatments -- 10 What ' s the Use of Culture?: Health Disparities and the Development of Culturally Competent Health Care -- 11 The Science and Epidemiology of Racism and Health: Racial/Ethnic Categories, Biological Expressions of Racism, and the Embodiment of Inequality - an Ecosocial Perspective -- Looking Forward -- 12 Race and the New Biocitizen -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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.
9780262266017
Genetics-Social aspects.
Racism.
Electronic books.
QH438.7.W53 2010
323.11