{"id":43865,"date":"2015-11-09T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43865"},"modified":"2017-03-25T20:20:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T20:20:37","slug":"the-biobank-as-political-artifact-the-struggle-over-race-in-categorizing-genetic-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43865","title":{"rendered":"The Biobank as Political Artifact: The Struggle over Race in Categorizing Genetic Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002716215591141\" target=\"_blank\">The Biobank as Political Artifact: The Struggle over Race in Categorizing Genetic Difference<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/content\/661\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 661, Number 1, September 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 143-159<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0002716215591141\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0002716215591141<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/profiles\/sandra-lee\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Soo-Jin Lee<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Research Scholar, Pediatrics<br \/>\nCenter for Biomedical Ethics<br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article discusses the institutional practices of classifying and creating taxonomies of difference within <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biobank\" target=\"_blank\">biobanks<\/a> (repositories that store a broad range of biological materials, including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\">DNA<\/a>) and the technical and sociopolitical priorities that ultimately create biobanks. I argue that biobanks operate as political artifacts and that the social circumstances surrounding the development and use of biobanks determine what counts as meaningful difference within human genetic research. The massive collection of human DNA, blood, and tissues is critical to genomic medicine and the development and governance of biobanks structure knowledge that will ultimately bear on how population differences are interpreted and health disparities are framed. Careful consideration of how to avoid the conflation of concepts of race, ethnicity, and nationality with biological differences is necessary to identify effective interventions that will bear positively on health.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/ann.sagepub.com\/content\/661\/1\/143.full\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Careful consideration of how to avoid the conflation of concepts of race, ethnicity, and nationality with biological differences is necessary to identify effective interventions that will bear positively on health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,26],"tags":[11276,12730,1483],"class_list":["post-43865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-annals-of-the-american-academy-of-political-and-social-science","tag-sandra-soo-jin-lee","tag-the-annals-of-the-american-academy-of-political-and-social-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52920,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43865\/revisions\/52920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}