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Fatal Invention
How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Dorothy Roberts(0)
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This groundbreaking book by the acclaimed Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of biological concept of race-revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databases-continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era. Named one of the ten best black nonfiction books 2011 by AFRO.com, Fatal Invention offers a timely and "provocative analysis" (Nature) of race, science, and politics by one of the nation's leading legal scholars and social critics.
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"Fatal Invention is a triumph!"
Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid and Deadly 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