What's the Use of Race?: Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference (MIT Press)
Language: English
Pages: 313
ISBN: B0058W1M7U
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Biopolitics Michel Foucault (1980) used the term biopolitics to describe the increasing concern by modern states with managing and measuring human populations as well as the treatment of such populations as a resource and object of administrative rule. Building on this influential concept, I suggest that the inclusion-and-difference paradigm can be understood as an example of a biopolitical paradigm, a term meant to suggest how practices of governance and scientific investigation have become
race/ethnicity, and confounding in case-control association studies. American Journal of Human Genetics 76:268–275. Tutton, R., A. Smart, R. Ashcroft, P. Martin, and G. T. H. Ellison. 2010. From self-identity to genotype: The past, present and future of ethnic categories in post-genomic science. In What’s the use of race? Modern governance and the Biology of Difference, ed. Ian Whitmarsh and David S. Jones. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Walsh, C., and L. F. Ross. 2003. Whether and why pediatric
self-identified ethnicity. Ostensibly, the notion of genetic ethnicity conflicts with definitions of ethnicity that emphasize sociocultural practice, although it should be noted that shared ancestry and genealogy are prominent in sociological discussions of the concept (Fenton 2003). However, it seems clear that genetic ethnicity is not invoked by geneticists as a conceptual challenge to ethnicity as a sociocultural and political concept per se, but rather as a semantic sleight of hand, which
and communication strategy documents for CARTaGENE, from which the preceding quote is taken, offer insight into how institutions are reflexively engaging with the competing discourses of difference that population genomics projects elicit. For example, the first goal in the brainstorming session for the biobank’s public theme was to put it in harmony with its recruitment campaign objective and offer the public “something catchy” (Lévesque 2007a, 1). This catchy teaser for the public is
response to recent debates about and arguments against the use of race in biomedical genetics research, some geneticists have attempted to construct technologies for finding diseaserelated genetic markers without employing notions of race or ethnicity. Through ethnographic methods, Fujimura and colleagues investigate these attempts and focus, in particular, on the work of medical and population geneticists who emphasize that they are accounting for population differences due to different