Heredity, race, and the birth of the modern
Auteur :
Eigen Figal, Sara
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780415964791
Date de publication :
14 mai 2008
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
550 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In this volume, Eigen places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories in order to answer the question, what constitutes "good" bonds among humans, and what compels us to determine them so across generations as both a physical and a metaphysical attribute?