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Volume 21 Issue 3-4
 
 
 Volume 21 Issue 3-4
DNA Databanks and Race
Nov-Dec 2008
 
DNA Dragnets and Race: Larger Social Context, History and Future
By Troy Duster
 
The Potential for Error in Forensic DNA Testing
By William C. Thompson
 
Can DNA 'Witness' Race?
By Duana Fullwiley
 
Drug Arrests and DNA: Building Jim Crow's Database
By Harry Levine, Deborah Peterson Small, Jon B. Gettman, Craig Reinarman
 
Prejudice, Stigma and DNA Databases
By Helen Wallace
 
Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests
By Sue Friedman
 
 
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Race and Genetics
For centuries, human societies have divided population groups into separate races. While there is no scientific basis for this, people unquestioningly accept these classifications as fact.
 
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Gene Patents
Rapid developments in biotechnology over the last two decades have enabled corporations and scientists to alter nature's handiwork for commercial profit. The patent, a tool originally created to insure that inventors could share in the financial returns and benefits deriving from the use of their nventions, has become the primary mechanism through which the private sector advances its claims to ownership over genes, proteins, and entire organisms.
 
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