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100 1  Marks, Jonathan|q(Jonathan M.),|d1955-|eauthor 
245 10 Is science racist? /|cJonathan Marks 
264  1 Cambridge, UK ;|aMalden, MA :|bPolity Press,|c2017 
300    viii, 142 pages :|billustration ;|c20 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 0  Debating race series 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and 
       index 
505 0  1 Introduction -- 2 How science invented race -- 3 Science,
       race, and genomics -- 4 Racism and biomedical science -- 5
       What we know, and why it matters 
520    "Every arena of science has its own set of ethical issues 
       ? chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb ? 
       and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As 
       Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship 
       rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for
       a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.  The 
       eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the 
       commodified genomic science of today are unified by the 
       mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic 
       categories. Yet their boundaries are founded neither in 
       biology nor genetics and, not being a formal scientific 
       concept, race is largely not accessible to the scientist. 
       As Marks argues, race can only be grasped through the 
       humanities: historically, experientially, politically.  
       This wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy
       of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority 
       of science and undermines it by converting it into a 
       social weapon"--|cProvided by publisher 
650  0 Social sciences|xMoral and ethical aspects 
650  0 Sciences|xMoral and ethical aspects 
650  0 Race discrimination 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.|2bisacsh
776 08 |iOnline version:|aMarks, Jonathan (Jonathan M.), 1955- 
       author.|tIs science racist?|dMalden, MA : Polity, 2017
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