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Revisiting
Race in a Genomic Age
Price: $32.95
Authors:
Edited by Barbara A
Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Sarah S. Richardson
Subject:
Health and Medicine,
Anthropology
Paper
ISBN 978-0-8135-4324-6
Pages:
368 pages, 9
photographs, graphs and tables
Publication Date:
November 2008
Series: Studies
in Medical Anthropology
Praise:
"Developments in molecular biology have
fundamentally changed our understanding of the human genome and the
role of genes in human health and behavior. This important,
timely, and richly informative volume examines the diverse implications
of modern human genetics for one of the most challenging and vexing
constructs ever devised for describing humans: 'race'."-William W.
Dressler, University of Alabama
"This very important and timely volume should be of interest
to any readers interested in human variation and how developments in
biomedical sciences—especially the mapping of the human genome—impact
the long-standing debate surrounding the concept of race. The book’s
multidisciplinary nature makes it unique and particularly
thought-provoking. Highly recommended."-Choice, August 2009
Description:
With the
completion of the sequencing of the human genome in 2001, the debate
over the existence of a biological basis for race has been revived. In Revisiting
Race in a Genomic Age, interdisciplinary scholars join forces to
examine the new social, political, and ethical concerns that are
attached to how we think about emerging technologies and their impact
on current conceptions of race and identity.
Essays explore a
range of topics that include drug development and the production of
race-based therapeutics, the ways in which genetics could contribute to
future health disparities, the social implications of ancestry mapping,
and the impact of emerging race and genetics research on public policy
and the media.
As genetic
research expands its reach, this volume takes an important step toward
creating a useful interdisciplinary dialogue about its implications.
About the Authors:
Barbara Koenig
is a professor at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and is a faculty
associate at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota at
Minneapolis.
Sandra
Soo-Jin Lee is a senior research scholar at the Center for
Biomedical Ethics and lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at
Stanford University.
Sarah S.
Richardson is a doctoral student in the Program in Modern Thought
and Literature at Stanford University.
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