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The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) by Myles W. Jackson is a medicine available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>The history of the CCR5 gene as a lens through which to view such issues as intellectual property, Big Pharma, personalized medicine, and race and genomics.</b></p><p>In <i>The Genealogy of a Gene</i>, Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural selection, Big and Small Pharma, human diversity studies, personalized medicine, ancestry studies,
Who reads The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)?
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- Author
- Myles W. Jackson
- Publisher
- MIT Press; The MIT Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262327190
- Category
- medicine
- Subjects
- Medical, Science, Pharmacology
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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