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Introduction -- 1. Dictionary definitions of "race" -- Introduction -- 1.1. A complete pronouncing medical dictionary : embracing the terminology of medicine and the kindred sciences, with their signification, etymology, and pronunciation (1886) / J. Thomas -- 1.2. A practical medical dictionary (1911) / T.L. Stedman -- 1.3. Gould's medical dictionary : containing all the words and phrases generally used in medicine and the allied sciences, with their proper pronunciation, derivation, and definition based on recent medical literature (1928) / G.M. Gould -- 1.4. Dictionary of Anthropology (1956) / C. Winick -- 1.5. A dictionary of scientific terms (1957) / I.F. Henderson, W.D. Henderson -- 1.6. Dictionary of the biological sciences (1967) / P. Gray -- 1.7. A dictionary of anthropology (1972) / D.M. Davies -- 1.8. McGraw-Hill dictionary of the life sciences (1976) -- 1.9. Macmillan dictionary of anthropology (1986) / C. Seymour-Smith -- 1.10. International dictionary of medicine and biology (1986) / S.I. Landau, ed. -- 1.11. Dictionary of genetics and cell biology (1987) / N. Maclean -- 1.12. Glossary of genetics : classical and molecular (1991) / R. Rieger -- 1.13. Encyclopedia & dictionary of medicine, nursing, & allied health (1992) / B.F. Miller -- 1.14. A dictionary of genetics (1997) / R. King -- 1.15. The Cambridge dictionary of human biology and evolution (2005) / L.L. Mai, M. Young Owl, M.P. Kersting -- 2. Anatomical observations -- Introduction -- 2.1. "Laws" (Query IX) (1781-1782) / Thomas Jefferson -- 2.2 "Letter to the Secretary of State" (1791) / Benjamin Banneker -- 2.3. Thomas Jefferson's reply to Banneker (1791) -- 2.4. "The effect of circumstances upon the physical man" (1854) / Frederick Douglass -- 2.5. "Peculiarities in the structure and diseases of the ear of the Negro" (1887) / T.E. Murrell -- 2.6. "The deformity termed 'pug nose' and its correction by a simple operation" (1887) / John Orlando Roe -- 2.7. "The hair and wool of the different species of man" (1850) -- 2.8. "On some of the apparent peculiarities of partuition in the Negro races" (1875) / Joseph Taber Johnson. |
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3. Immunity and contagion -- Introduction -- 3.1. "Report on the diseases and physical peculiarities of the Negro race" (1851) / Samuel A. Cartwright -- 3.2. "The plague spot" (1878) / Mary P. Sawtelle -- 3.3. "Consumption among the Indians" (1887) / Washington Matthews -- 3.4. "Does pulmonary consumption tend to exterminate the American Indian?" (1887) / Thomas Mays -- 3.5. "The study of consumption among the Indians" (1887) / Washington Matthews -- 4. Evolution and degeneration -- Introduction -- 4.1. "The impossibility of acclimatizing races" (1861) -- 4.2. "Vital statistics of the Negro" (1892) / Frederick L. Hoffman -- 4.3. "The influence of environment and race on diseases" (1910) / C.W. Birnie -- 4.4. "How to improve the race" (1914) / Alexander Graham Bell -- 5. Techniques of measurement -- Introduction -- 5.1. Investigations in the military and anthropological statistics of American soldiers (1869) / Benjamin Gould -- 5.2. "Some recent criticisms of physical anthropology" (1899) / Franz Boas -- 5.3. "Observations on the sweat glands of tropical and Northern races" (1917) /Elbert Clark, Ruskin H. Lhamon -- 5.4. "The color-top method of estimating skin pigmentation" (1930) / H.A. Bowman -- 5.5. "Race and runners" (1936) / W. Montague Cobb -- 6. Glandular differences -- Introduction -- 6.1. "The gland as a clue to the mystery of human faces" (1920) 6.2. "Man and the endocrines : with stress on the female" (1921) / G.K. Dickinson -- The glands regulating personality : a study of the glands of internal secretion in relation to the types of human nature (1921) / Louis Berman -- 6.4. "The relation of the endocrine glands to heredity and development" (1922) / Lewellys F. Barker -- 6.5. Endocrinology in modern practice (1939) / William Wolf. |
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7. Hybridity and admixture -- Introduction -- 7.1. "Effects of race intermingling" (1917) / C.B. Davenport -- 7.2. "Biological and social consequences of race-crossing" (1926) / W.E. Castle -- "Racial fusion among the California and Nevada Indians" (1943) / S.F. Cook -- 7.4. "The physical characteristics of the hybrid" (1944) / Louis Wirth, Herbert Goldhamer -- 8. Toward genetics -- Introduction -- 8.1. "The race concept in biology" (1941) / Theodosius Dobzhansky -- 8.2. "Rh and the races of man" (1951) / William C. Boyd -- 8.3. "On the non-existence of human races" (1962) / Frank B. Livingstone, Theodosius Dobzhansky -- 8.4. "The genetic basis of human races" (1968) / Bentley Glass -- 9. The end of race? -- Introduction -- 9.1. "Statement on race" (1950) / UNESCO -- 9.2. "Statement on biological aspects of race" (1996) / American Association of Physical Anthropologists -- 9.3. "Statement on race" (1999) / American Anthropological Association -- 9.4. "Categorization of humans in biomedical research : genes, race, and disease" (2002) / Neil Risch, Esteban Burchard, Elad Ziv, Hua Tang -- 9.5. The importance of collecting data and doing social scientific research on race (2003) / American Sociological Association, -- 9.6. "Zebrafish researchers hook gene for human skin color" (2005) / Michael Balter -- 9.7. "SLC24A5, a putative cation exchanger, affects pigmentation in Zebrafish and humans" (2005) / Rebecca L. Lamason ... [et al.] -- Index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2007032265 |
| ISBN | 9780262083751 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262083752 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780262582759 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262582759 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
