The Nature of Difference
Subtitle: Science of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics
Contributors: Evelynn M. Hammonds (Editor); Rebecca M. Herzig (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: July 31, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780262083751
Subjects: Anthropology - Cultural; History; Life Sciences - General; Science / History; Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Science/Mathematics
Description: '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.