Tag: Andrew Smart

  • Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular importance is the preoccupation with origins and personal discovery and the…

  • Race and Genomics. Old Wine in New Bottles? Documents from a Transdisciplinary Discussion NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Volume 16, Number 3 (August 2008) pages 363-386 DOI 10.1007/S00048-008-0301-6 Staffan Müller-Wille ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society University of Exeter Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin, Germany From July 25 to 29,…

  • What’s the Use of Race? Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference The MIT Press May 2010 7 x 9, 296 pp., 7 illus. ISBN-10: 0-262-51424-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51424-8 Edited by Ian Whitmarsh, Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine University of California, San Francisco David S. Jones, Associate Professor of History and Culture…