Tabula Raza

Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-40117-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 386 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Reihe: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century

Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age. She presents many of the influential scientists at the forefront of genetics who have redefined how we practice medicine and law and understand ancestry in an era of big data and waning privacy. Exceedingly relatable and human, the scientists in these pages often struggle for visibility, teeter on the tightrope of inclusion, and work tirelessly to imprint the future. As they actively imagine a more equal and just world, they often find themselves ensnared in reproducing timeworn conceits of race and racism that can seed the same health disparities they hope to resolve.

Nothing dynamic can live for long as a blank slate, an innocent tabula rasa. But how the blank slate of the once-raceless human genome became one of racial differences, in various forms of what Fullwiley calls the tabula raza, has a very specific and familiar history—one that has cycled through the ages in unexpected ways.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fullwiley, Duana

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface: Skin and Code 
Abbreviations 

Introduction: America and the Tabula Raza 

1. Genomic World Building: The Mundus Novus of the Twenty-first Century 
2. From Mundus to Model to Mundus Again: The Art of Ancestry between Worlds 
3. Making Race: Pharmacogenetics and Its Necessary People 
4. For the Love of Blackness: When Science Can Feel Like Home 
5. Look, a Black Guy! (With a Genetic Finding) 
6. A Family Affair: The Barbed Bonds of Relationship 
7. Sci Non-Fi: Cells, Genes, and the Future Tense of “Diversity
8. Seeing Ghosts: From the Excavated Past to the Hauntings of the Present 
Conclusion 

Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Duana Fullwiley is an anthropologist of science and medicine at Stanford University. She is the author of the award-winning book The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa.