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What's the Use of Race? : Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262266017
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: What's the Use of Race?DDC classification:
  • 323.11
LOC classification:
  • QH438.7.W53 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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