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Author M'charek, Amade.

Title The Human Genome Diversity Project : an ethnography of scientific practice / Amade M'charek
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 213 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in society and the life sciences
Cambridge studies in society and the life sciences.
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Technologies of population: making differences and similarities between Turkish and Dutch males; 3 Ten chimpanzees in a laboratory: how a human genetic marker may become a good genetic marker for typing chimpanzees; 4 Naturalization of a reference sequence: Anderson or the mitochondrial Eve of modern genetics; 5 The traffic in males and other stories on the enactment of the sexes in studies of genetic lineage; 6 Technologies of similarities and differences, or how to do politics with DNA; Glossary; References; Index
Summary The Human Genome Diversity Project was an important and controversial programme of research arising from debates surrounding the mapping of the human genome. This book is based on an ethnography of laboratory practice and explores issues around standardization, naturalisation and diversity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-207) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Human Genome Diversity Project.
SUBJECT Human Genome Diversity Project fast
Subject Population genetics -- Research -- Social aspects
Human genome.
Human genetics -- Variation.
Population genetics.
Genome, Human
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical.
Population genetics
Human genome
Human genetics -- Variation
Form Electronic book
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