Dorothy Roberts is the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is the author of the award-winning Killing the Black Body and Shattered Bonds and is the co-editor of six books on gender and constitutional law. She serves as chair of the board of directors of the Black Women's Healthy Imperative and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

“Fatal Invention is a triumph!”—Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid and Deadly Monopolies“This is the best book of the year… If you read one work of nonfiction a year, make this the one.”—The New York Journal of Books“[Roberts] dismantles the reasons for using race to determine healthy policy and exposes how embedded social assumptions can shape medicine's research agenda and distort science.”—Ms. Magazine“Masterful.”—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism Without Racists“Devastatingly counters any argument that can be made for a racial view of genetics.”—The Brooklyn Rail“Alarming but not alarmist, controversial but evidential, impassioned but rational.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Thought-provoking, well-researched, [and] insightful.”—Choice“A must-read for those looking for an enlightened discussion of race in the 21st century.”—Library Journal

• PrefacePart I: Believing in Race in the Genomic Age1. The Invention of Race2. Separating Racial Science from RacismPart II: The New Racial Science3. Redefining Race in Genetic Terms74. Medical Stereotyping5. The Allure of Race in Biomedical Research6. Embodying RacePart III: The New Racial Technology7. Pharmacoethnicity8. Color-Coded Pills9. Race and the New Biocitizen10. Tracing Racial RootsPart IV: The New Biopolitics of Race11. Genetic Surveillance12. Biological Race in a “Postracial” AmericaConclusion: The CrossroadsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex