Humanitarian DNA Identification in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Humanitarian DNA Identification in Post-Apartheid South Africa To appear in: Keith Wailoo, Alondra Nelson, and Catherine Lee (eds.), Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision between DNA, Race, and History (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, in press) Jay D. Aronson 1 Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society Department of History Carnegie Mellon University [email protected] July 29, 2010
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