Remapping Race in a Global Context
Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the role of race in human genomics, biomedicine, and struggles for social justice around the world.
In this book, biologists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers inspect critical questions around the biological reality of race and how it has been understood in different national and regional contexts. The essays also examine debates on the usefulness of race in medical and epidemiological studies. With a focus on the fields of human genomics and biomedicine, this book presents critical findings on whether and how race might be ethically and epistemologically justified in our age of personalized medicine, mass surveillance, and biased algorithms.
The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in a broad range of scientific and humanistic disciplines, including biology, anthropology, geography, philosophy, cultural or community studies, critical race theory, and any field concerned with the deep racial dividing lines running across societies globally.
Ludovica Lorusso is a Research Fellow at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB). She is the author of peer-reviewed papers in philosophy of biology, philosophy of race, and philosophy of perception, where she proposed a new model of perception of faces. Her current research interests include philosophy of biomedicine; science, technology, and society (STS); and bioethics.
Rasmus Grnfeldt Winther is a Professor of Humanities at the University of California Santa Cruz. He works in the philosophy of science and philosophy of biology and has interests in epistemology and political philosophy, cartography and GIS, and science in general. Recent publications include A Beginners Guide to the New Population Genomics of Homo sapiens: Origins, Race, and Medicine in The Harvard Review of Philosophy; Mapping the Deep Blue Oceans in The Philosophy of GIS; When Maps Become the World (2020); and Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics (2022).
History and Philosophy of Biology
Series Editor: Rasmus Grnfeldt Winther is Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).
This series explores significant developments in the life sciences from historical and philosophical perspectives. Historical episodes include Aristotelian biology, Greek and Islamic biology and medicine, Renaissance biology, natural history, Darwinian evolution, Nineteenth-century physiology and cell theory, Twentieth-century genetics, ecology, and systematics, and the biological theories and practices of non-Western perspectives. Philosophical topics include individuality, reductionism and holism, fitness, levels of selection, mechanism and teleology, and the nature-nurture debates, as well as explanation, confirmation, inference, experiment, scientific practice, and models and theories vis--vis the biological sciences.
Authors are also invited to inquire into the and of this series. How has, does, and will the history of biology impact philosophical understandings of life? How can philosophy help us analyze the historical contingency of, and structural constraints on, scientific knowledge about biological processes and systems? In probing the interweaving of history and philosophy of biology, scholarly investigation could usefully turn to values, power, and potential future uses and abuses of biological knowledge.
The scientific scope of the series includes evolutionary theory, environmental sciences, genomics, molecular biology, systems biology, biotechnology, biomedicine, race and ethnicity, and sex and gender. These areas of the biological sciences are not silos, and tracking their impact on other sciences such as psychology, economics, and sociology, and the behavioral and human sciences more generally, is also within the purview of this series.
Remapping Race in a Global Context
Edited by Ludovica Lorusso and Rasmus Grnfeldt Winther
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Remapping Race in a Global Context
Edited by
Ludovica Lorusso and Rasmus Grnfeldt Winther
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Names: Lorusso, Ludovica, editor. | Winther, Rasmus Grnfeldt, editor.
Title: Remapping race in a global context / edited by Ludovica Lorusso and Rasmus Grnfeldt Winther.
Description: First Edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Series:
History and philosophy of biology | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021033708 (print) | LCCN 2021033709 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138631434 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032152707 (paperback) | ISBN 9781315208893 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Race. | Human evolution. | Human geneticsVariation. | Critical race theory.
Classification: LCC HT1521.R4556 2022 (print) | LCC HT1521 (ebook) | DDC 305.8dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021033708
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021033709
ISBN: 978-1-138-63143-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-15270-7 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-20889-3 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781315208893
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