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Opening the white box: Exploring the study of whiteness in contemporary genetics research by Richard Tutton is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Opening the white box: Exploring the study of whiteness in contemporary genetics research about?
This article addresses the routine use of race and ethnicity in thecontext of applied population genetics, which includes research ingenetic epidemiology into the causes of common, complex diseases andin pharmacogenetics the study of the genetic basis of how peoplerespond to pharmaceuticals. It investigates how categories of ‘‘white-ness’’ are operationalized in everyday scientific practice. It reviews thecritique of the presumed homogeneity, invisibility and ‘‘common-sense’’status of whiteness in the epidemiological and clinical literature, anddraws on qualitative interviews conducted with twenty-eight UK-basedresearchers working in the areas of genetic epidemiology and pharma-cogenetics. The study explores how researchers justify the inclusion ofwhite/Caucasians in studies and the exclusion of other ethnic groups,operationalize white/Caucasian as a category by which volunteers orpatients are selected in and out of studies, and show how geneticevidence can also challenge researchers’ assumptions and problematizetheir everyday use of categories such as white/Caucasian.
Who reads Opening the white box: Exploring the study of whiteness in contemporary genetics research?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard Tutton
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Genetics, Stem