Lisa Gannett
Associate Professor, Saint Mary's University
 
 
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'Population Genetics', The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity, edited by Stephen M. Caliendo and Charlton D. McIlwain, London and New York: Routledge, 2011, pp. 192–194.
Routledge

'Questions Asked and Unasked: How by Worrying Less about the "Really Real" Philosophers of Science Might Better Contribute to Debates about Genetics and Race,' Synthese,, 2010, vol. 177, pp. 363-385.
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'Genes and Society,' chapter 19 in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology, edited by Michael Ruse, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 451–477.
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'The Human Genome Project,' Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/human-genome/); published in November 2008.

Book review: Harold Kincaid, John Dupré, and Alison Wylie (eds.)'s, Value-Free Science? Ideals and Illusions, Oxford University Press, 2007, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2008-02-21.
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=12424

Critical Notice: Elisabeth A. Lloyd's The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, Harvard University Press, 2005, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2007, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 619–638.
Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Book Review: Jenny Reardon's Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics, Princeton University Press, 2005, British Journal for the History of Science, 2007, vol. 40, pp. 462–464.
Cambridge Journals Online

'Group Categories in Pharmacogenetics Research,' Philosophy of Science, 2005, vol. 72 (Proceedings), no. 5, pp. 1232–1247.
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'Social Ontologies of Race. Commentary on McPherson and Shelby's 'Blackness and Blood: Interpreting African American Identity,' Symposium on Gender and Race in Philosophy, 2005.
http://web.mit.edu/sgrp/2005/no1/Gannett0505.pdf

'Classical Genetics and the Geography of Genes' (co-authored by James R. Griesemer), chapter 4 in Classical Genetics Research and Its Legacy: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth Century Genetics, edited by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Routledge, 2004, pp. 57–87.
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'The ABO Blood Groups: Mapping the History and Geography of Genes in Homo sapiens' (co-authored by James R. Griesemer), chapter 6 in Classical Genetics Research and Its Legacy: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth Century Genetics, edited by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Routledge, 2004, 119–172.
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Critical notice of Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution, 2001, edited by Susan Oyama, Paul E. Griffiths, and Russell D. Gray (co-authored by James R. Griesemer, Matt Haber, and Grant Yamashita), Biology and Philosophy, 2005, vol. 20, pp. 517–544.
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'Are We Our Patients' Keepers?' and 'Should We Have to Shoulder This Burden Alone?' in Moral Dilemmas in Community Health Care: Cases and Commentaries, edited by Becky Cox White and Joel Zimbelman, Addison Wesley Longman, 2004.
Pearson Publishing

'The Biological Reification of Race,' British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2004, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 323–345.
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

'Classical Genetics and the Geography of Genes' (co-authored by James R. Griesemer), chapter 4 in Classical Genetics Research and Its Legacy: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth Century Genetics, edited by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Routledge, 2004, pp. 57–87.

'The ABO Blood Groups: Mapping the History and Geography of Genes in Homo sapiens' (co-authored by James R. Griesemer), chapter 6 in Classical Genetics Research and Its Legacy: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth Century Genetics, edited by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Routledge, 2004, 119–172.

'Making Populations: Bounding Genes in Space and in Time,' Philosophy of Science, 2003, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 989–1001.
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'The Normal Genome in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Thought,' Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2003, vol. 34, pp. 143–185.
ScienceDirect

'Racism and Human Genome Diversity Research: The Ethical Limits of "Population Thinking,"' Philosophy of Science, 2001, vol. 68 (Proceedings), pp. S479–S492.
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'What's in a Cause? The Pragmatic Dimensions of Genetic Explanations,' Biology and Philosophy, July 1999, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 349–373.
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Review of the edited volume Genes and Human Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Modern Genetics, Science Education, September 1997, vol. 81, no. 5, pp. 610–613.
Wiley InterScience

'Tractable Genes, Entrenched Social Structures,' critical notice of Philip Kitcher's 1996 book The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities, Biology and Philosophy, July 1997, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 403–419.
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