Amade M'Charek

The Human Genome Diversity Project

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Produktbeschreibung

The Human Genome Diversity Project was an important controversial research program arising from the debates surrounding the mapping of the human genome. This book, based on a detailed ethnographic study of two laboratories involved in the project, explores issues concerning standardization, naturalization and diversity generated in day-to-day work by scientists and technicians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780521832229
• ISBN-10: 0521832225
• Artikelnr.: 22099337

Autorenporträt

Amade M'charek is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology and the Department of Poltical Science, University of Amsterdam and is Lecturer in Science, Technology and Public Management.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Human Genome Diversity Project; 1. Technologies of
populations: making differences and similarities between Turkish and Dutch
males; 3. Ten chimps in a laboratory: or how a human genetic marker may
become a good genetic marker for typing chimps; 4. Naturalisation 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 similarity and difference or
how to do politics with DNA.

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Introduction: The Human Genome Diversity Project; 1. Technologies of populations: making differences and similarities between Turkish and Dutch males; 3. Ten chimps in a laboratory: or how a human genetic marker may become a good genetic marker for typing chimps; 4. Naturalisation 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 similarity and difference or how to do politics with DNA.

Rezensionen

'M'Charek offers the reader a fascinating first-hand account of science-in-practice at two of the laboratories involved in the Human Genome Diversity Project, but this is more than just another instalment in the now well-established tradition of ethnography in/of the laboratory. ... engagingly written ...'. Environment and Planning A