HKS Affiliated Authors

Professor of Public Policy, HKS; Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, FAS

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Race, Racial Inequality, and Biological Determinism in the Genetic and Genomic Era: Biological Determinism and Social Policy: Genetic Determinism, Technology Optimism, and Race: Views of the American Public. Jennifer Hochschild, September 2015, Paper. "Genomics is already a multi-billion-dollar industry and research program, and it is likely to continue growing exponentially. It enables everything from new dating services and testing the fish in sushi to convictions or exonerations in courts of justice, identifying victims of massacres, and finding cures for devastating rare diseases. It also risks genetic surveillance..." Link