Fatal Invention

Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is the author of the award-winning Killing the Black Body and Shattered Bonds and is the co-editor of six books on gender and constitutional law. She serves as chair of the board of directors of the Black Women’s Healthy Imperative and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

• PrefacePart I: Believing in Race in the Genomic Age1. The Invention of Race2. Separating Racial Science from RacismPart II: The New Racial Science3. Redefining Race in Genetic Terms74. Medical Stereotyping5. The Allure of Race in Biomedical Research6. Embodying RacePart III: The New Racial Technology7. Pharmacoethnicity8. Color-Coded Pills9. Race and the New Biocitizen10. Tracing Racial RootsPart IV: The New Biopolitics of Race11. Genetic Surveillance12. Biological Race in a “Postracial” AmericaConclusion: The CrossroadsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“Fatal Invention is a triumph!”—Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid and Deadly Monopolies“This is the best book of the year… If you read one work of nonfiction a year, make this the one.”—The New York Journal of Books“[Roberts] dismantles the reasons for using race to determine healthy policy and exposes how embedded social assumptions can shape medicine’s research agenda and distort science.”—Ms. Magazine“Masterful.”—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism Without Racists“Devastatingly counters any argument that can be made for a racial view of genetics.”—The Brooklyn Rail“Alarming but not alarmist, controversial but evidential, impassioned but rational.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Thought-provoking, well-researched, [and] insightful.”—Choice“A must-read for those looking for an enlightened discussion of race in the 21st century.”—Library Journal