Introduction: The Human Genome Diversity Project; 1. Technologies of populations: making differences and similarities between Turkish and Dutch males; 3. Ten chimps in a laboratory: or how a human genetic marker may become a good genetic marker for typing chimps; 4. Naturalisation of a reference sequence: Anderson or the Mitochondrial Eve of modern genetics; 5. The traffic in males and other stories on the enactment of the sexes in studies of genetic lineage; 6. Technologies of similarity and difference or how to do politics with DNA.
This book is based on an ethnography of laboratory practice and explores issues around standardization, naturalisation and diversity.
Amade M'charek is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology and the Department of Poltical Science, University of Amsterdam and is Lecturer in Science, Technology and Public Management.
'M'Charek offers the reader a fascinating first-hand account of science-in-practice at two of the laboratories involved in the Human Genome Diversity Project, but this is more than just another instalment in the now well-established tradition of ethnography in/of the laboratory. … engagingly written …'. Environment and Planning A
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