Browsing by Author "Fullwiley, Duana"
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The Biologistical Construction of Race: "Admixture" Technology and the New Genetic Medicine
Fullwiley, Duana (Sage Publications, 2008)This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the use of race in two interconnected laboratories of medical genetics. Specifically, it examines how researchers committed to reducing health disparities in Latinos with ... -
Can DNA ‘Witness’ Race?: Forensic Uses of an Imperfect Ancestry Testing Technology
Fullwiley, Duana (The Council on Responsible Genetics, 2008) -
Discriminate Biopower and Everyday Biopolitics: Views on Sickle Cell Testing in Dakar
Fullwiley, Duana (Taylor & Francis, 2004)Many physicians in Senegal and France, where most Senegalese sickle cell specialists are partially trained, assume that genetic testing that could imply selective abortion for people with sickle cell would run counter to ... -
Out from under the Skin: Disease Etiology, Biology and Society: A Commentary on Aronowitz
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Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship
Fullwiley, Duana (Cambridge University Press, 2007)Many researchers working in the field of human genetics in the United States have been caught between two seemingly competing messages with regard to racial categories and genetic difference. As the human genome was mapped ... -
Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?
Braun, Lundy; Fullwiley, Duana; Fausto-Sterling, Anne; Hammonds, Evelynn M.; Nelson, Alondra; Quivers, William; Reverby, Susan M.; Shields, Alexandra E. (Public Library of Science, 2007) -
Response to "The Legitimacy of Genetic Ancestry Tests"
Tallbear, Kimberly; Fullwiley, Duana; Morning, Ann; Bolnick, Deborah A.; Duster, Troy; Nelson, Alondra; Cooper, Richard S.; Fujimura, Joan H.; Kaufman, Jay S.; Reardon, Jenny; Marks, Jonathan; Reverby, Susan M.; Kahn, Jonathan; Ossorio, Pilar (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008) -
Revaluating Genetic Causation: Biology, Economy, and Kinship in Dakar, Senegal
Fullwiley, Duana C. (American Anthropological Association, 2010)In this article, I call for enlarging the conceptual terrain for viewing local biological expressions of illness. To date, a specific DNA sequence pattern, called “the Senegalese sickle cell haplotype,” has enjoyed ... -
The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing
Kaufman, Jay S.; Duster, Troy; Reverby, Susan M.; Fullwiley, Duana; Bolnick, Deborah A.; Nelson, Alondra; TallBear, Kimberly; Morning, Ann; Ossorio, Pilar; Reardon, Jenny; Marks, Jonathan; Cooper, Richard S.; Fujimura, Joan H.; Kahn, Jonathan (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007)Commercially available tests of genetic ancestry have significant scientific limitations, but are serious matters for many test-takers.