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  • Divided Fates

    The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States

    by Kazuko Suzuki ...
    Series series Perspectives on a Multiracial America
    Winner, ASA Book Award on Asia/Transnational (2017)This book compares the Korean diasporic groups in Japan and the United States. It highlights the contrasting adaptation of Koreans in Japan and the United States, and illuminates how the destinies of immigrants who originally belonged to the same ethnic/national collectivity diverge depending upon destinations and how they are received in a ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Reconsidering Race

    Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics

    by Henry Louis Gates, Jr ...
    Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define. Social science literature has argued that race is a Western concept that emerged with the birth of modern imperialism, whether in the sixteenth century (the Age of Discovery) or the eighteenth century (the Age of Enlightenment). This book points out that there is ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Reconsidering Race

    Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics

    Narrated by Mirron Willis ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define. Social science literature has argued that race is a Western concept that emerged with the birth of modern imperialism, whether in the sixteenth century (the Age of Discovery) or the eighteenth century (the Age of Enlightenment). This book points out that there is ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Fatal Invention

    How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Native American DNA

    Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science

    by Kim TallBear ...
    Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of casino profits from wealthy tribes, the answers to these seemingly straightforward questions have profound ramifications. The rise of DNA testing has further complicated the issues and raised the stakes.In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Bioethics, An: Fourth Edition - Revised and Updated

    by Thomas A. Shannon & Nicholas J. Kockler ...
    This book provides an introductory survey of various bioethical issues facing society from beginning of life issues to end of life issues, and several issues in between. ... Read more

    $25.87 CAD

  • The Politics of Life Itself

    Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century

    by Nikolas Rose ...
    Series series In-Formation
    For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Genetics

    Science, Ethics, and Public Policy

    by Mark P. Aulisio, Françoise Baylis, Geoffrey D. Block, Hawley Fogg-Davis, Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Konrad Hockedlinger, Rodulf Jaenisch, Gregory E. Kaebnick, Muin J. Khoury, Roberta Springer Loewy, Thomas May, Edward R. B. McCabe, Linda L. McCabe, Annette Patterson, Jason Scott Robert, Martha Satz, Dena Towner, The President's Council on Bioethics, Francis Fukuyama ...
    Series series Readings in Bioethics
    Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies, is covered regularly in the media, and affects people everyday around the globe. In ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    by Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock ...
    An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Medical Anthropology

    Edited by Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960sWritten by leading international scholars in medical anthropologyCovers environmental health, global health, biotechnology, syndemics, nutrition, substance ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • New Genetics, New Identities

    Edited by Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, Helen Greenslade ...
    Series series Genetics and Society
    What implications are applications of new genetic technologies in biomedicine having on social identity in today’s society?New Genetics, New Identities, a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary volume in the CESAGen Genetics & Society Book series, presents not only theoretical reflection but also empirical case studies drawn from an international array of authors. Including the highly controversial areas ... Read more

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