Title: The nature of difference : sciences of race in the United States from Jefferson to genomics /
Authors: Hammonds, Evelynn Maxine.; Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971-
Publisher: MIT Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Race Study and teaching United States History.; Race Study and teaching United States History Sources.; Science Social aspects United States History.; Science Social aspects United States History Sources.; Difference (Psychology) Social aspects United States History.; Difference (Psychology) Social aspects United States History Sources.; Race awareness United States History.; Race awareness United States History Sources.; United States Race relations History.; United States Race relations History Sources.
Abstract: 'The Nature of Difference' documents how distinctions between people have been generated in and by the life sciences. Through commentaries and a wide-ranging selection of primary documents, it charts the shifting boundaries of science and race over more than two centuries of American history.
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Dictionary definitions of "race" -- Introduction -- 1.1. A complete pronouncing medical dictionary : embracing the terminology of medicine and the kindred sciences, with their signification, etymology, and pronunciation (1886) / J. Thomas -- 1.2. A practical medical dictionary (1911) / T.L. Stedman -- 1.3. Gould's medical dictionary : containing all the words and phrases generally used in medicine and the allied sciences, with their proper pronunciation, derivation, and definition based on recent medical literature (1928) / G.M. Gould -- 1.4. Dictionary of Anthropology (1956) / C. Winick -- 1.5. A dictionary of scientific terms (1957) / I.F. Henderson, W.D. Henderson -- 1.6. Dictionary of the biological sciences (1967) / P. Gray -- 1.7. A dictionary of anthropology (1972) / D.M. Davies -- 1.8. McGraw-Hill dictionary of the life sciences (1976) -- 1.9. Macmillan dictionary of anthropology (1986) / C. Seymour-Smith --^