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Race and Genetics: Somber History, Troubled Present

Following the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP) in 2003, advances in DNA sequencing technologies further popularized the field of genomics and brought its social ramifications to the fore. Scholars across disciplines recently voiced serious concerns about the re-emergence of genomic resea...

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Autor principal: Mohsen, Hussein
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: YJBM 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7087058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32226350
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description Following the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP) in 2003, advances in DNA sequencing technologies further popularized the field of genomics and brought its social ramifications to the fore. Scholars across disciplines recently voiced serious concerns about the re-emergence of genomic research that might be used to justify racism. In this piece, I trace the history of attempts to biologize the concept of race and its diffused presence in today’s genomic research. I then include a brief analysis inspired by concepts from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to suggest selected ways to produce better scientific knowledge. The text highlights historic landmarks of interest to science practitioners curious about the ways science of the past co-shapes science of the present. I then argue that science has never been isolated from the socio-political climate it is produced in; instead, it has been morphed by its surroundings and historically used as a potent tool to justify systemic oppression.
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spelling pubmed-70870582020-03-27 Race and Genetics: Somber History, Troubled Present Mohsen, Hussein Yale J Biol Med Perspectives Following the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP) in 2003, advances in DNA sequencing technologies further popularized the field of genomics and brought its social ramifications to the fore. Scholars across disciplines recently voiced serious concerns about the re-emergence of genomic research that might be used to justify racism. In this piece, I trace the history of attempts to biologize the concept of race and its diffused presence in today’s genomic research. I then include a brief analysis inspired by concepts from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to suggest selected ways to produce better scientific knowledge. The text highlights historic landmarks of interest to science practitioners curious about the ways science of the past co-shapes science of the present. I then argue that science has never been isolated from the socio-political climate it is produced in; instead, it has been morphed by its surroundings and historically used as a potent tool to justify systemic oppression. YJBM 2020-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7087058/ /pubmed/32226350 Text en Copyright ©2020, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
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