Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
“Fatal Inventionis a triumph!”—Harriet A. Washington, author ofMedical ApartheidandDeadly Monopolies“This is the best book of the year… If you read one work of nonfiction a year, make this the one.”—The New York Journal of Books“[Roberts] dismantles the reasons for using race to determine healthy policy and exposes how embedded social assumptions can shape medicine’s research agenda and distort science.”—Ms. Magazine“Masterful.”—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author ofRacism Without Racists“Devastatingly counters any argument that can be made for a racial view of genetics.”—The Brooklyn Rail“Alarming but not alarmist, controversial but evidential, impassioned but rational.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Thought-provoking, well-researched, [and] insightful.”—Choice“A must-read for those looking for an enlightened discussion of race in the 21st century.”—Library Journal