Brexit as heredity redux: Imperialism, biomedicine and the NHS in Britain

Fitzgerald, Des; Hinterberger, Amy; Narayan, John; Williams, Ros

doi:10.1177/0038026120914177

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“…These particular episodes in the Polish history demonstrate how Poland, since the turn of the twentieth century, has occupied an unmarked slot in the practices of ‘ heredity redux ’ (Fitzgerald et al, 2020, p. 3). In the empirical section, I will reveal what these racial practices have enabled in contemporary Poland.…”

Section: Polish Eugenics: Racial Purity and The Fear Of Mongrelisationmentioning

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Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism’

Balogun

2020

The Sociological Review

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Whilst scholarship has sought to consider migration in Poland, there has been a lack of engagement with the ways in which race and racism interact with migration. In this article, I map the figures in the Polish imaginary of European, and examine whether Poland has different, if related, histories of racial thinking. I ask how such histories have been conceived, shaped and mediated. To examine this, I focus on the lived experiences of sub-Saharan African immigrants and children of immigrants (Black/mixed-race) who are often portrayed as non-Europeans and seen by some as ‘not quite Polish’. In doing so, this article provides an insight into the racial contours of Polish self-conception. I call this logic ‘Polish-centrism’ – a focus on some aspects of Polish culture to the exclusion of a wider view of the world. It is within this logic that I examine what it means to be Black and Polish in Poland.

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Section: Polish Eugenics: Racial Purity and The Fear Of Mongrelisationmentioning

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Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism’

Balogun

2020

The Sociological Review

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“…Indeed, what I have not had opportunity to do in this intervention, but which clearly emerges as a necessary future focus from this paper’s argument, is explore why people might say “no” to appeals. This, I suspect, would require us to take seriously both the historical and contemporary contexts (see Fitzgerald et al 2020 ; Benjamin 2016 ) in which minoritised individuals elect not to engage with biomedical projects like clinical trials, tissue donation and so on. Indeed, rationales for refusal are hinted towards in allusions across the above data to the notion that the state and institutions like the NHS and registries inspire less ‘trust’ than do community organisations.…”

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“…There isn't scope here for detailed discussion of the issue of mistrust in the context of tissue donation, but in the contemporary UK context, "hostile environment" policies in healthcare settings alongside data sharing agreements between health institutions and Government (seeFitzgerald et al 2020) arguably compound more enduring concerns amongst some racially minoritised groups that the health system is not trustworthy.…”

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“It’s harder for the likes of us”: racially minoritised stem cell donation as ethico-racial imperative

Williams

2021

BioSocieties

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How best are we to understand appeals to participate in a biomedical project that are based both on invoking shared racial identity, and on framing engagement as the clear moral course of action? Stem cell donor recruitment, which often focuses on engaging racially minoritised communities, provides useful insight into this question. This article proposes that it is not an essential mutual racial identity between the person asking and the person asked at play. Rather, it is the creative ‘doing’ of relatedness between people at the scale of race as well as family that coalesces into powerful appeals to participate. Through analysis of ethnographic, documentary and social media data, the paper argues that this work relies at least partly on framing donation as a duty of being part of a racialised community, which I describe here as an ethico-racial imperative, in which both race and responsibility become intertwined to compel participation in the biomedical project of donor registration.

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“…These norms can help establish a moral community whom you can trust, and they may provide the basis for generalized trust. Thus, while they may have been some ambivalence in public attitudes towards government policy trust was enhanced by public support for the NHS as an institution ( Godlee, 2020c ), which also reflected nationalistic values ( Fitzgerald et al ., 2020 ).…”

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Health policy and controlling Covid-19 in England: sociological insights

Calnan

2020

Emerald Open Res

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The global Covid-19 pandemic is posing considerable challenges for governments throughout the world and has and will have a significant influence on the shape of peoples social and economic life and wellbeing in the short and longer term. This opinion paper discusses the current health policy response adopted in England to control or manage the epidemic and identifies the key sociological and political influences which have shaped these policies. Drawing on the theoretical approach set out in his recent book, which emphasises the interplay of powerful structural and economic interest groups, the author will consider the influence of the key players. Government policy has tied itself to scientific and medical evidence and protecting the NHS so the key roles of the medical profession, public health scientific community and NHS management and their respective and relative powerful influences will be discussed. The government needs the support of the public if their policies are to be successful, so how have the government addressed maintaining public trust in this ‘crisis’ and how much trust do the public have in the government and what has influenced it? The strong emphasis on social distancing and social isolation in the national government policy response to Covid-19 has placed an increasing public reliance on the traditional and social media for sources of information so how the media has framed the policy will be considered. One policy aim is for an effective vaccine and the influence of the drug industry in its development is discussed. Finally, the role of the state will be discussed and what has shaped its social and economic policies.

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Brexit as heredity redux: Imperialism, biomedicine and the NHS in Britain

Cited by 33 publications

References 37 publications

Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism’

Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism’

“It’s harder for the likes of us”: racially minoritised stem cell donation as ethico-racial imperative

Health policy and controlling Covid-19 in England: sociological insights

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