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The Material Gene - Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project (Paperback)
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The Material Gene - Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project (Paperback)
Series: Biopolitics
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Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award Finalist for the
2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural
Studies Division Book of the Year Award In 2000, the National Human
Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a "draft" of
the human genome, the sequence information of nearly all 3 billion
base pairs of DNA. Since then, interest in the hereditary basis of
disease has increased considerably. In The Material Gene, Kelly E.
Happe considers the broad implications of this development by
treating "heredity" as both a scientific and political concept.
Beginning with the argument that eugenics was an ideological
project that recast the problems of industrialization as
pathologies of gender, race, and class, the book traces the legacy
of this ideology in contemporary practices of genomics. Delving
into the discrete and often obscure epistemologies and discursive
practices of genomic scientists, Happe maps the ways in which the
hereditarian body, one that is also normatively gendered and
racialized, is the new site whereby economic injustice,
environmental pollution, racism, and sexism are implicitly
reinterpreted as pathologies of genes and by extension, the bodies
they inhabit. Comparing genomic approaches to medicine and public
health with discourses of epidemiology, social movements, and
humanistic theories of the body and society, The Material Gene
reworks our common assumption of what might count as effective,
just, and socially transformative notions of health and disease.
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