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Whats the Use of Race? – Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference
Author(s): Ian Whitmarsh (Author), David S Jones (Author), Jonathan Kahn (Author), Pamela Sankar (Author), Steven Epstein (Author)
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publication Date: 30 May 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 0262514249
- ISBN-13: 9780262514248
Book Description
How race as a category-reinforced by new discoveries in genetics-is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.
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About the Author
Ian Whitmarsh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
David S. Jones is Associate Professor of History and Culture of Science and Technology at MIT.
