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Biomedical ambivalence: Asthma, race, and nation in an international genetics study.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Biomedical ambivalence: Asthma, race, and nation in an international genetics study.
Author:	Whitmarsh, Ian.
Description:	319 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Joao Biehl.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-09, Section: A, page: 3355.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3188659
ISBN:	9780542306464

Biomedical ambivalence: Asthma, race, and nation in an international genetics study.
Whitmarsh, Ian.

Biomedical ambivalence: Asthma, race, and nation in an international genetics study. - 319 p.

Adviser: Joao Biehl.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2005.

Ambivalence and ambiguity are treated as foundational to this process: public officers and medical practitioners criticize and facilitate the market role in public health; participant families are skeptical and hopeful of the interests and potential of international genetics research; and study facilitators simultaneously value and disbelieve the potential of the applicability of the research to Barbados. Such contestations and ambivalence are argued to be critical to the ways genomic medicine is constituting biomedical futures and the present.

ISBN: 9780542306464Subjects--Topical Terms:

212460
Anthropology, Cultural.

Biomedical ambivalence: Asthma, race, and nation in an international genetics study.
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520 # $a Race is shown to be variably incorporated as cultural, biological, and medical in race and disease approaches by the FDA, NIH, and academic and industry research teams. As a complex and contested disease, asthma is shown to reveal the ways genetics research shapes meanings of disease and race. Barbados is examined as a case of the impact of such research, as the site of six international genetics projects despite a population of only 269,000. The Barbados state is shown to approach the population as biologically black in attracting such research, and to make health and disease intervention within the context of international biomedical and pharmaceutical trends. The categories of disease population, biological race, and asthma are demonstrated to be mutually constituted as international biomedical research becomes a part of state care.
520 # $a The participant families are shown to use moments of skepticism, resignation, and belief to make meaning of the pharmaceutical as public health intervention; of the public/private approach to care; and of biomedical research on asthma. State/industry formulations of mothers as medical caretakers and of patients as nonadherent are demonstrated to be critical to this process. The scientific production of genetic research is analyzed as inextricable from these practices around nation, race, and family.
520 # $a This dissertation examines the impact of genomic and pharmacogenomic research through the patient populations, medical facilitators, and state practices that comprise the infrastructure of such studies. Fieldwork was conducted from July 2002-July 2003 in the Washington, DC area among genetic researchers and regulators and from August 2003-April, 2004, in Barbados among genetics team members, families, and medical practitioners involved in a US-based genetics of asthma study.
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