Public demand and the development of large public and private databases of genetic
information across human populations has encouraged the development of the new and …

Human variation, including questions about race, have been central to biological
anthropology since its emergence as a professional discipline in the early 20th century …

The completion of the first draft of the Human Genome Map in 2000 was widely heralded as
the promise and future of genetics‐based medicines and therapies–so much so that pundits …

Es necesario incorporar al debate del campo del constructivismo ciertas corrientesque
desde la filosofía y la teoría política se han interrogado por elproblema de la construcción …

This paper analyzes the emergence of 'genomic sovereignty'policies as a newly popular
way for postcolonial countries to frame their investment in genomics. It identifies three …

The new genomics has begun to play an increasing role in the arbitration of social identities.
By facilitating the transcription of older notions that heritable substances determine identity …

This paper explores the changing role of science in public discourse on 'race'and racism,
examining the contention that new biological accounts of human life ('biologism') are …

Before any citizen enters the role of scientist, medical practitioner, lawyer, epidemiologist,
and so on, each and all grow up in a society in which the categories of human differentiation …

What can our genes tell us about who we are? The answer to that question depends on
exactly what you want to know. In 1997, a Virginia pathologist and his colleagues used Y …

The author sought to gain a better understanding of ancestry tracing and how visual, oral,
sculptural narratives are used to generate identities. It soon became clear that the different …