Genetic nature/culture : anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide

Genetic nature/culture : anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide /

The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious--or more fraught with paradox--than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A constructive response, and a welcome intervention, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to co...

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Other Authors: Goodman, Alan H. (Editor), Heath, Deborah, 1952- (Editor), Lindee, M. Susan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Human population genetics > Congresses.
Human genetics > Research > Congresses.
Human genetics > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses.
Anthropological ethics > Congresses.
Anthropology.
Bioethics.
Genetics, Population > trends
Anthropology
Bioethical Issues
anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Bioethics
Anthropological ethics
Human genetics > Moral and ethical aspects
Human genetics > Research
Human population genetics
Anthropologie
Gentechnologie
Humangenetik
Sozialanthropologie
Kongress
Genetica.
Cultuur.
Antropologie.
Ethische aspecten.
Electronic books.
Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Congressen (vorm)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:
  • Anthropology and the age of genetics: practice, discourse, and critique / M. Susan Lindee, Alan Goodman, and Deborah Heath
  • Indigenous peoples, changing social and political landscapes, and human genetics in Amazonia / Ricardo Ventura Santos
  • Provenance and the pedigree: Victor McKusick's fieldwork with the old order Amish / M. Susan Lindee
  • Flexible eugenics: technologies of the self in the age of genetics / Karen-Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, and Deborah Heath
  • The commodification of virtual reality: the Icelandic health sector database / Hilary Rose
  • Kinship, genes, and cloning: life after Dolly / Sarah Franklin
  • For the love of a good dog: webs of action in the world of dog genetics / Donna Haraway
  • 98% chimpanzee and 35% daffodil: the human genome in evolutionary and cultural context / Jonathan Marks
  • From pure genes to GMOs: transnationalized gene landscapes in the biodiversity and transgenic food networks / Chaia Heller and Arturo Escobar
  • Future imaginaries: genome scientists as sociocultural entrepreneurs / Joan H. Fujimura
  • Reflections and prospects for anthropological genetics in South Africa / Himla Soodyall
  • The genetics of African Americans: implications for disease gene mapping and identity / Rick Kittles and Charmaine Royal
  • Human races in the context of recent human evolution: a molecular genetic perspective / Alan R. Templeton
  • Buried alive: the concept of race in science / Troy Duster
  • The good, the bad, and the ugly: promise and problems of ancient DNA for anthropology / Frederika A. Kaestle.

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