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Jonathan Marks
Is Science Racist? [EPUB ebook]

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Every arena of science has its own flash-point 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 naturalist...

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Table of Content

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

About the author

Jonathan Marks is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 140 ● ISBN 9780745689258 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2017 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5204814 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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