A different kind of association between socio‐histories and health

Fujimura, Joan H.

doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12117_5

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“…Troy Duster, a US-based sociologist, has led the critical engagement with racial genomics for nearly three decades (see Fujimura, 2015 for an overview). His recent contribution outlines the elements of a social scientific intervention into what he calls the ‘molecular re-inscription of race’ currently taking place in labs across the planet (Duster, 2015).…”

Section: The Dna Turn In Racial Sciencementioning

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‘We’ve been here for 2,000 years’: White settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization

Leroux

2018

Soc Stud Sci

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Relying on a populace well-educated in family history based in ancestral genealogy, a robust national genomics sector has developed in Québec over the past decade-and-a-half. The same period roughly coincides with a fourfold increase in the number of individuals and organizations in the region self-identifying with a mixed-race form of indigeneity that is counter to existing Indigenous understandings of kinship and citizenship. This paper examines how recent efforts by genetic scientists, working on a multi-year research project on the 'diversity' of the Québec gene pool, intervene in complex settler-Indigenous relations by redefining indigeneity according to the logics of 'Native American DNA'. Specifically, I demonstrate how genetic scientists mobilize genes associated with Indigenous peoples in ways that support regional efforts to govern settler-Indigenous relations in favour of otherwise white settler claims to Indigenous lands.

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Section: The Dna Turn In Racial Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

‘We’ve been here for 2,000 years’: White settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization

Leroux

2018

Soc Stud Sci

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Assembling Biomedical Big Data

Leonelli

2018

The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society

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This chapter examines the challenges involved in disseminating, integrating and analyzing large datasets collected on both human subjects and non-human experimental organisms, and within both clinical and research settings. I highlight some of the technical, ethical and epistemic concerns underlying current attempts to portray and use Big Data as revolutionary tools for producing biomedical knowledge and related interventions. When bringing together data collected on human subjects with data collected from other organisms, significant differences in the experimental cultures of biologists and clinicians emerge, which if left unchallenged risk to compromise the quality and validity of large scale, cross-species data integration. My study emphasises the complex conjunctions of biological and clinical practice, model organisms and human subjects, and material and virtual sources of evidence-thus emphasising the fragmented, localized and inherently translational nature of biomedical research, and the challenges underlying the assemblage and interpretation of big data in this domain.

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Ten Theses on the Subject of Biology and Politics: Conceptual, Methodological, and Biopolitical Considerations

Frost

2018

The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society

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A different kind of association between socio‐histories and health

Cited by 3 publications

References 57 publications

‘We’ve been here for 2,000 years’: White settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization

‘We’ve been here for 2,000 years’: White settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization

Assembling Biomedical Big Data

Ten Theses on the Subject of Biology and Politics: Conceptual, Methodological, and Biopolitical Considerations

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