The nature of difference: sciences of race in the United States from Jefferson to genomics. Edited by Evelynn M. Hammonds and Rebecca M. Herzig

Hammonds, Evelynn Maxine / Herzig, Rebecca M., ed. The nature of difference: sciences of race in the United States from Jefferson to genomics. Edited by Evelynn M. Hammonds and Rebecca M. Herzig. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008, xiv, 380pp., large square PAPERBACK, covers neatly laminated with tape, clean ex-library book with only minimal stamps, "withdrawn" stamps, barcode. 'The Nature of Difference' documents how distinctions between people have been generated in and by the life sciences. Through commentaries and a wide-ranging selection of primary documents, it charts the shifting boundaries of science and race over more than two centuries of American history. - CONTENTS: Introduction -- 1. Dictionary definitions of "race" -- Introduction -- 1.1. A complete pronouncing medical dictionary : embracing the terminology of medicine and the kindred sciences, with their signification, etymology, and pronunciation (1886) / J. Thomas -- 1.2. A practical medical dictionary (1911) / T.L. Stedman -- 1.3. Gould's medical dictionary : containing all the words and phrases generally used in medicine and the allied sciences, with their proper pronunciation, derivation, and definition based on recent medical literature (1928) / G.M. Gould -- 1.4. Dictionary of Anthropology (1956) / C. Winick -- 1.5. A dictionary of scientific terms (1957) / I.F. Henderson, W.D. Henderson -- 1.6. Dictionary of the biological sciences (1967) / P. Gray -- 1.7. A dictionary of anthropology (1972) / D.M. Davies -- 1.8. McGraw-Hill dictionary of the life sciences (1976) -- 1.9. Macmillan dictionary of anthropology (1986) / C. Seymour-Smith --^ 1.10. International dictionary of medicine and biology (1986) / S.I. Landau, ed. -- 1.11. Dictionary of genetics and cell biology (1987) / N. Maclean -- 1.12. Glossary of genetics : classical and molecular (1991) / R. Rieger -- 1.13. Encyclopedia & dictionary of medicine, nursing, & allied health (1992) / B.F. Miller -- 1.14. A dictionary of genetics (1997) / R. King -- 1.15. The Cambridge dictionary of human biology and evolution (2005) / L.L. Mai, M. Young Owl, M.P. Kersting -- 2. Anatomical observations -- Introduction -- 2.1. "Laws" (Query IX) (1781-1782) / Thomas Jefferson -- 2.2 "Letter to the Secretary of State" (1791) / Benjamin Banneker -- 2.3. Thomas Jefferson's reply to Banneker (1791) -- 2.4. "The effect of circumstances upon the physical man" (1854) / Frederick Douglass -- 2.5. "Peculiarities in the structure and diseases of the ear of the Negro" (1887) / T.E. Murrell --^ 2.6. "The deformity termed 'pug nose' and its correction by a simple operation" (1887) / John Orlando Roe -- 2.7. "The hair and wool of the different species of man" (1850) -- 2.8. "On some of the apparent peculiarities of partuition in the Negro races" (1875) / Joseph Taber Johnson. 3. Immunity and contagion -- Introduction -- 3.1. "Report on the diseases and physical peculiarities of the Negro race" (1851) / Samuel A. Cartwright -- 3.2. "The plague spot" (1878) / Mary P. Sawtelle -- 3.3. "Consumption among the Indians" (1887) / Washington Matthews -- 3.4. "Does pulmonary consumption tend to exterminate the American Indian?" (1887) / Thomas Mays -- 3.5. "The study of consumption among the Indians" (1887) / Washington Matthews -- 4. Evolution and degeneration -- Introduction -- 4.1. "The impossibility of acclimatizing races" (1861) -- 4.2. "Vital statistics of the Negro" (1892) / Frederick L. Hoffman -- 4.3. "The influence of environment and race on diseases" (1910) / C.W. Birnie -- 4.4. "How to improve the race" (1914) / Alexander Graham Bell -- 5. Techniques of measurement -- Introduction -- 5.1. Investigations in the military and anthropological statistics of American soldiers (1869) / Benjamin Gould -- 5.2. "Some recent criticisms of physical anthropology" (1899) / Franz Boas -- 5.3. "Observations on the sweat glands of tropical and Northern races" (1917) /Elbert Clark, Ruskin H. Lhamon -- 5.4. "The color-top method of estimating skin pigmen. …