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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
color="#333300" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:#333300;font-weight:bold'>2009 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics<O:P></O:P></span></font></b><font
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color="#993300" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:#993300;font-weight:bold'>Reflections on the Shifting Political &
Cultural Status of Human Molecular Genetics<O:P></O:P></span></font></b><font
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color="#993300" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:#993300;font-weight:bold'>Troy Duster<O:P></O:P></span></font></b><font
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color="#993300" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:#993300;font-weight:bold'>Silver Professor of Sociology<O:P></O:P></span></font></b><font
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color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Abstract<O:P></O:P></span></font></b><font
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black'>In the short space of four decades, human genetics has catapulted
from the “poor relative” of the genetic sciences to a vanguard
position in both public consciousness and funding status. Part of this is
explained by the revolution in molecular genetics brought about by both the
reality and the hyperbole of the mapping and sequencing of the human
genome. Part of this is explained by the unrealistic hopes of both
producers and consumers for a “genetic fix” to complex human
problems – from diseases to behaviors to attributes. From ancestry
tracing to crime scene investigation, from direct-to-consumer diagnostics to
proposals for long-term gene-environment research, we have witnessed a dramatic
shift in both the political and cultural status of human genetics. In the
coming decade, we will see a clear fleshing out of these trends – nowhere
more clearly than in the idea of race.</span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:black'><O:P></O:P><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Wednesday, October 7, 2009<O:P></O:P></span></font></b><font
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color:black;font-weight:bold'>For more information<O:P></O:P></span></font></b><font
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color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:black;font-weight:bold'><a href="http://mit.edu/sts/news/special.html"
title="blocked::http://mit.edu/sts/news/special.html">http://mit.edu/sts/news/special.html</a><O:P></O:P></span></font></b><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 color=black face="Californian FB"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB";color:black'>Bianca
Singletary</span></font></b></strong><font color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 color=black face="Californian FB"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB";color:black'>Assistant to
Professor David Mindell, Director of STS</span></font></b></strong><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 color=black face="Californian FB"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB";color:black'>Massachusetts
Institute of Technology</span></font></b></strong><font color=black><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 color=black face="Californian FB"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB";color:black'>Program in
Science, Technology, and Society</span></font></b></strong><font color=black><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 face="Californian FB"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB"'>Bianca Singletary</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 face="Californian FB"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB"'>Assistant to Professor
David Mindell, Director of STS</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 face="Californian FB"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB"'>Massachusetts Institute
of Technology</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 face="Californian FB"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB"'>Program in Science,
Technology, and Society</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB"'>Phone: 617 253-3452 Fax:
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Californian FB"'>web.mit.edu/sts/</span></font></b></strong><font
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