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Autore |
Schramm Katharina |
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Identity Politics and the New Genetics : Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging / / Katharina Schramm, David Skinner, Richard Rottenburg |
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Berghahn Books, 2012 |
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[s.l.] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2012 |
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Studies of the Biosocial Society |
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Medical / Genetics |
Medicine |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction Ideas in Motion -- 1 'Race' as a Social Construction in Genetics -- 2 Mobile Identities and Fixed Categories -- 3 Race, Kinship and the Ambivalence of Identity -- 4 Identity, DNA and the State in Post-Dictatorship Argentina -- 5 'Do You Have Celtic, Jewish or Germanic Roots?' -- 6 Irish DNA -- 7 Genomics en Route -- 8 Biotechnological Cults of Affliction? -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
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Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular importance is the preoccupation with origins and personal discovery and the increasing use of racial and ethnic categories in social policy. This new genetic knowledge, expressed in technology and practice, has the potential to disrupt how race and ethnicity are debated, managed and lived. The contributors include medical researchers, anthropologists, historians of science and sociologists of race relations; together, they explore the new and challenging landscape where biology becomes the stuff of identity. |
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