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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRussell gives us an innovative way to think about longstanding debates in bioethics. I encourage fellow bioethicists to give her approach serious attention. Her theory explains why it is not so easy to escape our history and why it is so important to make race a central focus (rather than an addendum) to many of these conversations.
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Throughout the book, Russell emphasizes how race operates throughout the use of ART and the political and social consequences of this relationship. His text is incredibly clear and accessible, and he makes a very important argument at its core. The book will prove useful to anyone who teaches or studies the philosophy of race, philosophy of medicine, medical humanities, or bioethics. . . . Highly recommended.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction: From What Race Is to What Race Does
Overview
Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Critical Philosophy of Race
The Debate over the "Reality" of Race
Nature, Culture, or Politics?
Description of Chapters
1. Reproductive Technologies are Not "Post-Racial"
Beyond the "Bioethical" Approach
Whose Progress?
The "Problem" of Infertility
Reproducing Inequalities
Race and the "Natural"
Conclusion
2. Race Isn't Just Made, It's Used
Race as Technology
Heidegger's Essence of Technology
Foucault's Focus on Technologies
Conclusion
3. A Technological History of Race
Backdoor to Eugenics?
The Technological Science of Race
Kant's Scientific Concept of Race
Race as Envisioned and Purposive
Race as Producible and Produced
Race, Heredity, and Eugenics Proper
A Note on Heidegger
Conclusion
4. "I Just Want Children Like Me"
Putting Race to Work
Race, Blood, and American Kinship
Denying Common Origins—The American Polygenists
Discouraging Intimacy and Disallowing Kinship
Separation After Slavery
The "Blood" in our "Genes"
Conclusion
5. Race and Choice in the Era of Liberal Eugenics
The Neo-Liberal Regime of Truth
Technologies of the Self
The Personal and the Political in Assisted Reproduction
Technologies of the Self as Technologies of Race
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
