From measuring rods to DNA sequencin...
Volery, Ingrid.

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    Title/Author: From measuring rods to DNA sequencing/ edited by Ingrid Volery, Marie-Pierre Julien.
    Reminder of title: assessing the human /
    other author: Volery, Ingrid.
    Published: Singapore :Springer Singapore : : 2020.,
    Description: xxi, 282 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
    [NT 15003449]: Chapter 1: Introduction: What measuring means -- Part I. The Measurements of the human body between the 19th and the 20th century: from the flesh to the subjectivity -- Chapter 2: Producing Otherness Through Resemblance. Bodily orifices and the measuring of the human (1800-1860) -- Chapter 3: Talking Bones: age in 19th-century forensic handbooks (1813-1906) -- Chapter 4: Thinking "quality of life": from measures to categorizations of the human beings -- Part II. Between objectivization and subjectivization: How forensic identification, genomic correction and life support technologies reshape the frontiers between things, human person and social subject -- Chapter 5: Being born in the era of genomics -- Chapter 6: From "technicized" bodies to body technologies: the human in resuscitative care, between objectivization and subjectivization -- Part III. Measurement and the Rise of New Hierarchies between human beings -- Chapter 7: Bone Geopolitics. Bone Age and the Racialization of Growth in UK and US Pediatrics (1940-1980) -- Chapter 8: Models of corporeality and controversies around puberty -- Chapter 9: Everyone for himself and all together? Thinking "race" between social science, epidemiology, and medicine -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Measurement as an ontological scalpel.
    Contained By: Springer Nature eBook
    Subject: Medical anthropology - Methodology -
    Online resource: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7582-2
    ISBN: 9789811575822
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