RT Review
T1 Social Equality in an Alternate World
JF The Hastings Center report
VO 51
IS 6
SP 54
OP 55
A1 Martschenko, Daphne Oluwaseun
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1782161015
AB Genes have long been used to validate social inequality. The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality, by Kathryn Paige Harden, attempts not only to reclaim genetic research on human behavior from its eugenic past but also to argue that genetic research can be used to understand and enhance social equality. This review essay illustrates why embracing a political agenda in which genetics matter for social equality will not in practice advance efforts to reduce social inequality. It argues that the points raised in The Genetic Lottery would be important in an alternate world in which structural inequalities have ceased to exist, but not in the world we live in today.
K1 Bioethics
K1 ugly history
K1 ELSI
K1 structural equality
K1 structural inequality
K1 Social Inequality
K1 social equality
K1 social and behavioral genomics
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1002/hast.1307