Is Science Racist?
Language: English
Published by Polity Press, 2017
Series: Book 2 of 6 - Debating Race
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: En este ensayo perspicaz y agudo, Jonathan Marks explora la persistencia y el legado del racismo científico, una corriente que se apropia de la autoridad de la ciencia para convertirla en un arma social. Marks argumenta que la creencia en la desigualdad natural de las razas humanas carece de fundamento biológico o genético, y que el concepto de "raza" no es una categoría científica formal, sino una construcción que debe entenderse a través de las humanidades: histórica, experiencial y políticamente.El libro analiza cómo la ciencia, desde la eugenesia de principios del siglo XX hasta la genómica moderna, ha sido utilizada erróneamente para clasificar a los seres humanos. Con un enfoque crítico y accesible, el autor desmantela los mitos que subyacen a estas ideas, ofreciendo una lectura esencial para comprender la intersección entre la ciencia, la ética y la justicia social en el mundo contemporáneo. EAN: 9780745689227 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Ciencias|Filosofía|Literatura y Ficción Título: Is Science Racist? Autor: Jonathan Marks Editorial: Polity Press Idioma: en Páginas: 140 Formato: tapa blanda.…
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- Title
- Is Science Racist?
- Author
- Jonathan Marks
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0745689221
- ISBN 13
- 9780745689227
- Series
- Book 2 of 6: Debating Race
Every arena of science has its own flash-point 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 in 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.
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