Genetic nature/culture : anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide / edited by Alan H. Goodman, Deborah Heath, and M. Susan Lindee
By: GOODMAN, Alan H.
Contributor(s): Goodman, Alan H | Heath, Deborah | Lindee, M. Susan.
Material type: TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003Description: xvii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0520237927 (alk. paper); 0520237935 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): | Human population genetics -- Congresses | Human genetics -- Research -- Congresses | Human genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses | Anthropological ethics -- Congresses | Genetics, Population -- trends -- Congresses | Anthropology -- Congresses | Bioethical Issues -- CongressesDDC classification: 599.93Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Papers presented at a Wenner-Gren Foundation's international symposium, "Antropology in the Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, Critique", which took place in June 1999, in Teres©đpolis, Brazil
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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