The Biologistical Construction of Race: 'Admixture' Technology and the New Genetic Medicine
This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the use of race in two interconnected laboratories of medical genetics. Specifically, it examines how researchers committed to reducing health disparities in Latinos with asthma advance hypotheses and structure research to show that relative frequenc...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Social Studies of Science. - Sage Publications, Ltd.. - 38(2008), 5, Seite 695-735 |
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| Sprache: | English |
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2008
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Social Studies of Science |
| Schlagworte: | Admixture AIMs Ancestry informative markers Asthma Genetics Race Biological sciences Health sciences History Business mehr... |
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