DNA, Race, and Reproduction - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520399587 ISBN 13 : 9780520399587

Editeur : University of California Press, 2025

Synopsis

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DNA, Race, and Reproduction helps readers inside and outside of academia evaluate and engage with the current genomic landscape. It brings together expertise in law, medicine, religion, history, anthropology, philosophy, and genetics to examine how scientists, medical professionals, and laypeople use genomic concepts to construct racial identity and make or advise reproductive decisions, often at the same moment. It critically and accessibly interrogates how DNA figures in the reproduction of racialized bodies and the racialization of reproduction and examines the privileged position from which genomic knowledge claims to speak about human bodies, societies, and activities. The volume begins from the premise that reproduction, regardless of the means, forces a confrontation between biomedical, scientific, and popular understandings of genetics, and that those understandings are often racialized. It therefore centers reproduction as both a site of analysis and an analytic lens.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Emily Klancher Merchant is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Building the Population Bomb.

Meaghan O'Keefe is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and leads the Medical Humanities Program at the University of California, Davis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520399587
• ISBN 13: 9780520399587
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Merchant Emily
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