Darwinian Disease Archaeology: Genomic Variants and the Eugenic Debate

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Summary

The contemporary Darwinian disease chase is historicized in order to interrogate the radical debate it has stimulated about what the sociologist, Troy Duster, has called the potential for an unwitting "biological reinscription" of racist conceptualizations of race.

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Published
2012-12-01
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Eugenics, Darwinism, Galton's problem, Social Darwinism, Survival of the fittest

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