The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity After the Human Genome Project

by Kelly E Happe and Kelly E. Happe

Book Overview

Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award

Finalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year Award

In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a "draft" of the human genome, the sequence information of nearly all 3 billion base pairs of DNA. Since then, interest in the hereditary basis of disease has increased...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814790682
• ISBN13: 9780814790687
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"