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Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories,
Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the role of race in
human genomics, biomedicine, and struggles for social justice
around the world. In this book, biologists, anthropologists,
historians, and philosophers inspect critical questions around the
biological reality of race and how it has been understood in
different national and regional contexts. The essays also examine
debates on the usefulness of race in medical and epidemiological
studies. With a focus on the fields of human genomics and
biomedicine, this book presents critical findings on whether and
how race might be ethically and epistemologically justified in our
age of personalized medicine, mass surveillance, and biased
algorithms. The book will be of interest to researchers and
advanced students in a broad range of scientific and humanistic
disciplines, including biology, anthropology, geography,
philosophy, cultural or community studies, critical race theory,
and any field concerned with the deep racial dividing lines running
across societies globally.
Situated at the intersection of natural science and philosophy, Our
Genes explores historical practices, investigates current trends,
and imagines future work in genetic research to answer persistent,
political questions about human diversity. Readers are guided
through fascinating thought experiments, complex measures and
metrics, fundamental evolutionary patterns, and in-depth treatment
of exciting case studies. The work culminates in a philosophical
rationale, based on scientific evidence, for a moderate position
about the explanatory power of genes that is often left
unarticulated. Simply put, human evolutionary genomics - our genes
- can tell us much about who we are as individuals and as
collectives. However, while they convey scientific certainty in the
popular imagination, genes cannot answer some of our most important
questions. Alternating between an up-close and a zoomed-out focus
on genes and genomes, individuals and collectives, species and
populations, Our Genes argues that the answers we seek point to
rich, necessary work ahead.
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