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.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2012-12-01
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- 4
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- 36
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Keywords
Eugenics, Darwinism, Galton's problem, Social Darwinism, Survival of the fittest
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