The Material Gene : Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project / Kelly E. Happe.
Happe, Kelly E., author.
2013
QH438.7 .H37 2016
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Title The Material Gene : Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project / Kelly E. Happe.
Author Happe, Kelly E., author.
ISBN 9780814744727
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790670.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814790670.001.0001 doi
Call Number QH438.7 .H37 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 572.86
Summary Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book AwardFinalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year AwardIn 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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Series Biopolitics ; ; 9
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Ideology and the New Rhetoric of Genomics
2 Heredity as Ideology
3 Genomics and the Reproductive Body
4 Genomics and the Racial Body
5 Genomics and the Polluted Body
6 Toward a Biosociality without Genes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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