From Self-Identity to Genotype: The Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Categories in Postgenomic Science (original) (raw)

The MIT Press eBooks, 2010

Abstract

In 2004, we were funded by the Wellcome Trust���the world's largest medical charity���through its Biomedical Ethics Programme to conduct a three-year project to investigate how genetic scientists working in biomedical research understood and operationalized race and ethnicity as categories in their research. 1 There had been limited research on these questions in the UK context, so this was to be a signi���cant undertaking. We focused on research studies examining genetic and environmental factors in the development of ...

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