The Human Genome Diversity Project: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences Series)
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The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) was launched in 1991 by a group of population geneticists whose aim was to map genetic diversity in hundreds of human populations by tracing the similarities and differences between them. It quickly became controversial and was accused of racism and 'bad science' because of the special interest paid to sampling cell material from isolated and indigenous populations. The author spent a year carrying out participant...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521539870
ISBN13:9780521539876
Release Date:February 2005
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.79 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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