Is science racist?
"Every arena of science has its own set of ethical issues ? chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb ? and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Malden, MA
Polity
2017
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| Schriftenreihe: | Debating race series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Every arena of science has its own set of ethical issues ? chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb ? and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races. The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic categories. Yet their boundaries are founded neither in biology nor genetics and, not being a formal scientific concept, race is largely not accessible to the scientist. As Marks argues, race can only be grasped through the humanities: historically, experientially, politically. This wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and undermines it by converting it into a social weapon"-- Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 2 How science invented race 3 Science, race, and genomics 4 Racism and biomedical science 5 What we know, and why it matters |
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| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Auflagen und Nachdrucke. - Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 131-138 |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 142 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 0745689213 0-7456-8921-3 0745689221 0-7456-8922-1 9780745689227 978-0-7456-8922-7 9780745689210 978-0-7456-8921-0 |