Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science

Duana Fullwiley

ISBN 10: 0520401174 / ISBN 13: 9780520401174

Published by University of California Press, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520401174
• ISBN 13: 9780520401174
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 597 grams

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Synopsis

<b>Winner of the 2024 Diana Forsythe Prize</b>- From the American Anthropological Association's Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing<br><br><b>Winner of the 2024 C. Wright Mills Award </b>- From The Society for the Study of Social Problems<br><br>Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age. She presents many of the influential scientists at the forefront of genetics who have redefined how we practice medicine and law and understand ancestry in an era of big data and waning privacy. Exceedingly relatable and human, the scientists in these pages often struggle for visibility, teeter on the tightrope of inclusion, and work tirelessly to imprint the future. As they actively imagine a more equal and just world, they often find themselves ensnared in reproducing timeworn conceits of race and racism that can seed the same health disparities they hope to resolve.<br><br>Nothing dynamic can live for long as a blank slate, an innocent tabula rasa. But how the blank slate of the once-raceless human genome became one of racial differences, in various forms of what Fullwiley calls the <i>tabula raza</i>, has a very specific and familiar history&mdash;one that has cycled through the ages in unexpected ways.

About the Author

Duana Fullwiley is an anthropologist of science and medicine at Stanford University. She is the author of the award-winning book The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa.