Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins (eBook)

Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA

Shoumita Dasgupta (Autor)

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2025
286 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39716-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A geneticist and internationally recognized anti-racism educator provides a powerful, science-based rebuttal to common fallacies about human difference.
 
Well-meaning physicians, parents, and even scientists today often spread misinformation about what biology can and can’t tell us about our bodies, minds, and identities. In this accessible, myth-busting book, geneticist Shoumita Dasgupta draws on the latest science to correct common misconceptions about how much of our social identities are actually based in genetics.
 
Dasgupta weaves together history, current affairs, and cutting-edge science to break down how genetic concepts are misused and how we can approach scientific evidence in a socially responsible way. With a unifying and intersectional approach disentangling biology from bigotry, the book moves beyond race and gender to incorporate categories like sexual orientation, disability, and class. Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins is an invaluable, empowering resource for biologists, geneticists, science educators, and anyone working against bias in their community.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Figures, Tables, and Text Box 

1. Why Me? 

PART I WHAT DOES SCIENCE TELL US?
2. On the Origins of Bias 
3. The Flawed Premise of Genetic Essentialism 
4. Biology of Human Populations—Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry 
5. Biology of Human Populations—Sex and Gender 
6. Pregnancy, Bodily Autonomy, and Reproductive Justice 
7. Disability 
8. What Genetics Doesn’t Fully Explain—Sociobehavioral Genetics and Society 

PART II HISTORY AND POLICY
9. Contemporary Eugenics and Its Historical Roots
10. Personal Genetic Information, Privacy, and the Justice System 

PART III GENETICS IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
11. Who Gets Left Behind 
12. Race-Based Medicine 
13. The Future of Genomic Medicine 

PART IV INTEGRATING THESE STORIES
14. Our Shared Responsibilities 
Afterword. A Call to Action 

Acknowledgments 
Glossary 
Bibliography 
Index 
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Schlagworte: antiracism education • behavior misconceptions • Biological basis of social identities • Class • Disability • dispelling • Education • Genetics and social identities • human diversity • misconceptions • misunderstandings Medical • racial identity • Science-based responses to myths • Scientific responses to genetic fallacies • Sexual orientation
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39716-9 / 0520397169
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39716-3 / 9780520397163