Permanent markers : race, ancestry, and the body after the genome / Sarah Abel.
Permanent markers : race, ancestry, and the body after the genome / Sarah Abel.
Permanent markers : race, ancestry, and the body after the genome / Sarah Abel.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Call Numbers
G 2021/2895
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
259 pages : illustrtions, maps ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The world in our DNA -- Geno-myths -- The geneticist's dilemma -- Technologies of the self -- Marked bodies -- Essential origins -- Historically modified organisms.
Publication information
Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
[2021]
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult questions about their identity by looking to the genome. At a time of intensified interest in issues of race and racism, the burgeoning influence of corporations like Ances...
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Full title
Permanent markers : race, ancestry, and the body after the genome / Sarah Abel.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-246) and index.
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Date Copyright
©2021
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Call Numbers
G 2021/2895
Record Identifier
74VKarOyOZ5A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKarOyOZ5A
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ISBN
146966514X
9781469665146
DDC
929.1072
MMS ID
991024442321102626
