Praise for Fatal Invention:
“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 health policy and exposes how embedded social assumptions can shape medicine’s research agenda and distort science."
—Ms. Magazine
"Thought-provoking, well-researched, [and] insightful."
—Choice
"A major, groundbreaking assessment of race and bioethics."
—Midwest Book Review
"This book meets an urgent need. . . . [A] herculean effort in fleshing out the biopolitics of race.
—Biopolitical Times
“A must-read for those looking for an enlightened discussion of race in the 21st century.”
—Library Journal
“Devastatingly counters any argument that can be made for a racial view of genetics.”
—The Brooklyn Rail
“Masterful.”
—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism Without Racists
“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 health policy and exposes how embedded social assumptions can shape medicine’s research agenda and distort science."
—Ms. Magazine
"Thought-provoking, well-researched, [and] insightful."
—Choice
"A major, groundbreaking assessment of race and bioethics."
—Midwest Book Review
"This book meets an urgent need. . . . [A] herculean effort in fleshing out the biopolitics of race.
—Biopolitical Times
“A must-read for those looking for an enlightened discussion of race in the 21st century.”
—Library Journal
“Devastatingly counters any argument that can be made for a racial view of genetics.”
—The Brooklyn Rail
“Masterful.”
—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism Without Racists
Fatal Invention
How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
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NOW IN PAPERBACK: Hailed as "essential reading" by Danny Glover and "a triumph!" by Harriet Washington, a groundbreaking critique of an emerging racial science, by the award-winning author of Killing the Black Body
"This is the best book of the year. . . . If you read one work of nonfiction a year, make it this one."
—The New York Journal of Books
—The New York Journal of Books
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.
Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is the author of the award-winning Killing the Black Body and Shattered Bonds and is the co-editor of six books on gender and constitutional law. She serves as chair of the board of directors of the Black Women’s Healthy Imperative and lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is the author of the award-winning Killing the Black Body and Shattered Bonds and is the co-editor of six books on gender and constitutional law. She serves as chair of the board of directors of the Black Women’s Healthy Imperative and lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Fall 2012
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 400 pages
978-1-59558-834-0
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 400 pages
978-1-59558-834-0
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