The Uses of Diversity: How Race Has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonathan KahnSeries:Race, Inequality, and Health #16Publish date:2025-06-10Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231220149ISBN-10:231220146UPC:9780231220149Book Category:Social Science, Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Race & Ethnic Relations, History, Civil RightsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.13 inchesWeight:1.6424Product ID:SC0SS3YKJE
The Uses of Diversity: How Race Has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology
Race, it is widely understood, is a social category that has no genetic basis, yet biological notions of race keep reemerging. Attempts to redress disparities in biomedical research emphasize recruiting racially representative trial participants. Forensic use of DNA evidence purports to pinpoint the race of a potential suspect. Genetic ancestry tracing companies explain test results to customers...
Series: Race, Inequality, and Health #16
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231220149ISBN-10:231220146UPC:9780231220149Book Category:Social Science, Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Race & Ethnic Relations, History, Civil RightsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.13 inchesWeight:1.6424Product ID:SC0SS3YKJE
Jonathan Kahn is a professor of law and biology at Northeastern University. He is the author of Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age (2013) and Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice (2017), both published by Columbia University Press.
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