Race, Risk, and Recreation in Personal Genomics: The Limits of Play.
Despite the mantra that genetics has moved beyond race, the burgeoning industry of genetic ancestry reveals how genetics has offered new technology through which individuals can link to intersections in time and space in complex ways that recapitulate understandings of racial order, origins, and gro...
| Published in: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 550 - 570 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2013
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