图书标签: 科学史 社会学 美国 治理术 基因 信息史 人种 DNA
发表于2024-12-23
The Social Life of DNA pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in America
We know DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is both revelatory and endlessly fascinating. Tracing genealogy is now the second-most popular hobby amongst Americans, as well as the second-most visited online category. This billion-dollar industry has spawned popular television shows, websites, and Internet communities, and a booming heritage tourism circuit.
The tsunami of interest in genetic ancestry tracing from the African American community has been especially overwhelming. In The Social Life of DNA, Alondra Nelson takes us on an unprecedented journey into how the double helix has wound its way into the heart of the most urgent contemporary social issues around race.
For over a decade, Nelson has deeply studied this phenomenon. Artfully weaving together keenly observed interactions with root-seekers alongside illuminating historical details and revealing personal narrative, she shows that genetic genealogy is a new tool for addressing old and enduring issues. In The Social Life of DNA, she explains how these cutting-edge DNA-based techniques are being used in myriad ways, including grappling with the unfinished business of slavery: to foster reconciliation, to establish ties with African ancestral homelands, to rethink and sometimes alter citizenship, and to make legal claims for slavery reparations specifically based on ancestry.
Nelson incisively shows that DNA is a portal to the past that yields insight for the present and future, shining a light on social traumas and historical injustices that still resonate today. Science can be a crucial ally to activism to spur social change and transform twenty-first-century racial politics. But Nelson warns her readers to be discerning: for the social repair we seek can’t be found in even the most sophisticated science. Engrossing and highly original, The Social Life of DNA is a must-read for anyone interested in race, science, history and how our reckoning with the past may help us to chart a more just course for tomorrow.
Alondra Nelson is Dean of Social Science and professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she has served as director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her latest book is The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome. She is also the author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination. Her essays, reviews, and commentary have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Science, among other publications. She lives in New York City. For more information, please see www.alondranelson.com.
真有趣,呵呵……怎么说呢,这本书其实在讨论一个蛮重要的问题的,DNA检测技术对于社会的影响。但是,这本书的研究方法和取向实在是太“主流”了,导致了这本书最后出来的论点模糊又透着一股无趣。有很多的findings,但也不知道从什么地方着手的感觉。最后出来就是一团浆糊。
评分真有趣,呵呵……怎么说呢,这本书其实在讨论一个蛮重要的问题的,DNA检测技术对于社会的影响。但是,这本书的研究方法和取向实在是太“主流”了,导致了这本书最后出来的论点模糊又透着一股无趣。有很多的findings,但也不知道从什么地方着手的感觉。最后出来就是一团浆糊。
评分真有趣,呵呵……怎么说呢,这本书其实在讨论一个蛮重要的问题的,DNA检测技术对于社会的影响。但是,这本书的研究方法和取向实在是太“主流”了,导致了这本书最后出来的论点模糊又透着一股无趣。有很多的findings,但也不知道从什么地方着手的感觉。最后出来就是一团浆糊。
评分真有趣,呵呵……怎么说呢,这本书其实在讨论一个蛮重要的问题的,DNA检测技术对于社会的影响。但是,这本书的研究方法和取向实在是太“主流”了,导致了这本书最后出来的论点模糊又透着一股无趣。有很多的findings,但也不知道从什么地方着手的感觉。最后出来就是一团浆糊。
评分真有趣,呵呵……怎么说呢,这本书其实在讨论一个蛮重要的问题的,DNA检测技术对于社会的影响。但是,这本书的研究方法和取向实在是太“主流”了,导致了这本书最后出来的论点模糊又透着一股无趣。有很多的findings,但也不知道从什么地方着手的感觉。最后出来就是一团浆糊。
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The Social Life of DNA pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024