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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course examines one of the most enduring and influential forms of identity and experience in the Americas and Europe, and in particular the ways race and racism have been created, justified, or contested in scientific practice and discourse. Drawing on classical and contemporary readings from Du Bois to Gould to Gilroy, we ask whether
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- anthropology
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- eugenics
- scientific racism
- racial hygiene
- racial economy
- human biodiversity
- apartheid
- race and gender
- monogenist
- polygenist
- alchemy of race
- nazi medicine
- nazi racism
- sociology of science
- race and culture
- genetic engineering
- raciology.
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If the twentieth century was the century of physics, the twenty-first promises to be the century of biology. This subject examines the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of biology in the age of genomics, biotechnological enterprise, biodiversity conservation, pharmaceutical bioprospecting, and synthetic biology. Although we exami
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- anthropology
- synthetic biology
- genetics
- charles darwin
- evolution
- eugenics
- bioprospecting
- ethics
- biodiversity
- race
- molecular biology
- sociology of science
- construction of identity
- intersex
- biotechnology
- narratives and metaphors
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This course does not seek to provide answers to ethical questions. Instead, the course hopes to teach students two things. First, how do you recognize ethical or moral problems in science and medicine? When something does not feel right (whether cloning, or failing to clone) — what exactly is the nature of the discomfort? What kind of tensi
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- linguistics and philosophy
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- genetics
- life support
- stem cell
- gm
- genetically modified
- genetic engineering
- risk
- biomedical
- medicine
- cloning
- euthanasia
- enhancing or cheating
- abortion
- eugenics
- slippery slope
- organ transplant
- organ donor
- disease
- public health
- health care
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This course will consider the claim that there is no such thing as race, with a particular emphasis on the question whether races should be thought of as natural kinds: is our concept of race a natural kind concept? Is the term 'race' a natural kind term? If so, is Appiah right to conclude that there are no races? How should one go about "a
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- race
- natural kinds
- classification
- appiah
- naming
- genomics
- marriage
- intermarriage
- history of science
- dna
- eugenics
- biology
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- racial economy
- human biodiversity
- apartheid
- race and gender
- monogenist
- polygenist
- alchemy of race
- nazi medicine
- nazi racism
- sociology of science
- race and culture
- genetic engineering
- raciology.
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- biodiversity
- race
- molecular biology
- sociology of science
- construction of identity
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- gm
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- genetic engineering
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- biomedical
- medicine
- cloning
- euthanasia
- enhancing or cheating
- abortion
- eugenics
- slippery slope
- organ transplant
- organ donor
- disease
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File: 24-892-spring-2004.zip
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- evolution
- eugenics
- bioprospecting
- ethics
- biodiversity
- race
- molecular biology
- sociology of science
- construction of identity
- intersex
- biotechnology
- narratives and metaphors
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- evolution
- eugenics
- bioprospecting
- ethics
- biodiversity
- race
- molecular biology
- sociology of science
- construction of identity
- intersex
- biotechnology
- narratives and metaphors
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- charles darwin
- evolution
- eugenics
- bioprospecting
- ethics
- biodiversity
- race
- molecular biology
- sociology of science
- construction of identity
- intersex
- biotechnology
- narratives and metaphors
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- eugenics
- scientific racism
- racial hygiene
- racial economy
- human biodiversity
- apartheid
- race and gender
- monogenist
- polygenist
- alchemy of race
- nazi medicine
- nazi racism
- sociology of science
- race and culture
- genetic engineering
- raciology.
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- evolution
- eugenics
- bioprospecting
- ethics
- biodiversity
- race
- molecular biology
- sociology of science
- construction of identity
- intersex
- biotechnology
- narratives and metaphors
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- scientific racism
- racial hygiene
- racial economy
- human biodiversity
- apartheid
- race and gender
- monogenist
- polygenist
- alchemy of race
- nazi medicine
- nazi racism
- sociology of science
- race and culture
- genetic engineering
- raciology.
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- evolution
- eugenics
- bioprospecting
- ethics
- biodiversity
- race
- molecular biology
- sociology of science
- construction of identity
- intersex
- biotechnology
- narratives and metaphors
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- scientific racism
- racial hygiene
- racial economy
- human biodiversity
- apartheid
- race and gender
- monogenist
- polygenist
- alchemy of race
- nazi medicine
- nazi racism
- sociology of science
- race and culture
- genetic engineering
- raciology.
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