Bioethnic Conscription: Genes, Race, and Mexicana/o Ethnicity in Diabetes Research

This article is an examination of academic, corporate, and state-funded alliance of molecular, biological, computer, and clinical scientists who are conducting research into the genetic epidemiology of type 2 diabetes. Because type 2 diabetes affects human groups differently, researchers use ethnic...

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Published inCultural anthropology Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 94 - 128
Main Author Montoya, Michael J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK American Anthropological Association 01.02.2007
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
Anthropology
Biomedicine
Borders
Boundaries
Causality
Conscription
Diabetes
Disease
Diseases
DNA
Epidemiology
Ethnicity
Genetic engineering
Genetic research
Genetics
Human genetics
Life
Medical genetics
Medical research
Medicine
Population genetics
Race
Science
Scientists
Social history
Social identity
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
U.S.‐‐Mexico border
New York
Mexico
United States > US
Japan
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Summary:This article is an examination of academic, corporate, and state-funded alliance of molecular, biological, computer, and clinical scientists who are conducting research into the genetic epidemiology of type 2 diabetes. Because type 2 diabetes affects human groups differently, researchers use ethnic and racial taxonomies to parse populations and social history to rationalize their categorical choices. In a process termed "bioethnic conscription," the social identities and life conditions of DNA donors are grafted into the biological explanations of human difference and disease causality in both objectionable and constructive ways. Bioethnic conscription is presented as an ethnographically sound alternative to the either-or proposition of the (R)ace-no race debate within biomedicine and anthropology.
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ISSN:0886-7356
1548-1360
DOI:10.1525/can.2007.22.1.94