Nations, populations and genomes

01 May 2012

Theory, culture and society

doi: 10.1177/0263276411427409 Theory, Culture & Society May 2012 vol. 29 no. 3 72-93 Author: Amy Hinterberger

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This article explores the contemporary scientific practice of human genome science. human genome research mobilizes many different kinds of populations. How might we aim to avoid overgeneralized readings of the refiguring of human difference in the life sciences and grapple with the multiple and contradictory logics of population classification?