Race and genetics

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Race and genetics

• Part 1 Introducing the new science of race and
  genetics
• The mapping of the human genome
• The Bell Curve Richard Hernstein and Charles
  Murray

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Part 2 the positive perspectives onrace and
genetics

• Francis Collins (director of HGP)
• the separation of human populations into
  precisely defined racial categories is
  scientifically unjustified.

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Part 3 Health, Science and Genetics

• A) Sickle Cell a black disease?
• Cystic Fibrosis a white disease?
• B) Drugs and racial difference the view from
  Pharmacogenomics
• - Critique from Troy Duster

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Part 4 Human Genome Diversity Project

• Part 5 Lay/ Public opinions and understanding
• Nelkin and Lindee
• reduced the self to a molecular entity,
  equating human beings, in all their social
  historical, moral complexity with their genes

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Part 6 Critique of genetic essentialisms

• Gilroy new genomics signals a post-race future
• Wade race, nature and culture a broader view

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Part 7 genealogy and ancestry

• Catherine Nash and the case of Irish ancestry
• Motherland a genetic journey
• New Reproductive technologies (NRTS) and
  ethnicity
• Tyler the inheritance of interracial identities