Chromosome surveys of human populations: Between epidemiology and anthropology

Chadarevian, Soraya de

doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.05.009

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“…As we will see, karyotyping was used as a diagnostic tool (Stern, 2012;De Chadarevian, 2014Santesmases, 2014Santesmases, , 2015Ha, 2015) 16 to tackle children's health problems by means of targeting child populations as laboratories for knowledge production and hypothesis testing, becoming part of the emerging model of biomedicine.…”

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Karyotyping and population genetics in Cold War Mexico: Armendares’s and Lisker’s characterization of child and indigenous populations, 1960s-1980s

Barahona

2019

Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos

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This paper focuses on geneticists Salvador Armendares’s and Rubén Lisker’s studies from the 1960s to the 1980s, to explore how their work fits into the post-1945 human biological studies, and also how the populations they studied, child and indigenous, can be considered laboratories of knowledge production. This paper describes how populations were considered for different purposes: scientific inquiry, standardization of medical practices, and production or application of medicines. Through the narrative of the different trajectories and collaborations between Armendares and Lisker, this paper also attempts to show the contact of their scientific practices, which brought cytogenetics and population genetics together at the local and global levels from a transnational perspective.

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Karyotyping and population genetics in Cold War Mexico: Armendares’s and Lisker’s characterization of child and indigenous populations, 1960s-1980s

Barahona

2019

Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos

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“…36 Instead, race science was reinvented within human biology, population genetics, and related fields, and recast as having potentially beneficial medical applications. 37 The key change, it was argued at the time and continues to be argued by some, was that the emphasis on "race" and "essence" was replaced by "population" and "frequency." Yet, several historians have found that little changed in that the notions of population and frequency continued to carry within them many of the older assumptions.…”

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Bloodworlds

Mukharji

2020

Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences

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In 1952, a joint Indo-Australian team undertook one of the first genetic studies of the Chenchu people of southern India. Long thought of as one of the oldest populations on the subcontinent and a potential link between South Asian and Aboriginal Australian populations, the study hoped to illuminate the deeper demographic histories of both India and Australia. Coming as it did immediately on the heels of decolonization, it also signaled a new era of scientific collaborations after empire. But what exactly does “collaboration” entail? How far do agendas and imaginations actually cohere in such a “collaboration”? The various collaborating actors in the Chenchu project held very distinctive ideas and agendas. Keeping blood at the center, this article explores those distinctive “bloodworlds” that were mobilized in the course of the Chenchu study. The published text of the study was a potpourri of these different bloodworlds; equally important, however, was the bloodworld this potpourri could not accommodate: the bloodworlds of Chenchu wizards. Not a world engendered in some pure or isolated “tribal culture,” but a magical bloodworld created through historical interactions with Shaivism and Shi’ism. This was a bloodworld eminently recognizable by the Chenchu themselves, but incapable of accommodation in the published study on them. This essay is part of a special issue entitled Pacific Biologies: How Humans Become Genetic, edited by Warwick Anderson and M. Susan Lindee.

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Radiation Science After the Cold War. The Politics of Measurement, Risk, and Compensation in Kazakhstan

Bauer

2017

Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings

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In the northeast of Kazakhstan more than 110 above ground nuclear explosions were carried out between 1949 and 1963. After the moratorium on atmospheric nuclear tests, underground nuclear testing was continued until 1989. This chapter follows the routes chosen by scientists and those responsible for public compensation programmes to navigate uncertainties of radiation-exposure in local communities around Semipalatinsk. It describes how, since the 1990s, research and compensation programmes have been negotiated and implemented in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, following decades of biomedical research during Soviet time. It shows how in the context of international collaborative projects, efforts to document long-term health effects stimulated innovations in epidemiological studies, exposure reconstruction, risk estimation, and radiation ecology. However, while negotiating compensation for local communities, most benefits of the innovative studies travelled to scientific practices in western countries, leaving global health disparities as they were. 'Vzryvaiut' ('They are blasting again'). It was often just one word by which people in the city of Semipalatinsk casually noticed that kitchen cupboards were trembling. As my interlocutors further recall, they had been accustomed to the occasional earthquake-like grumbling from the 'polygon', the Semipalatinsk test site,

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Chromosome surveys of human populations: Between epidemiology and anthropology

Cited by 11 publications

References 28 publications

Karyotyping and population genetics in Cold War Mexico: Armendares’s and Lisker’s characterization of child and indigenous populations, 1960s-1980s

Karyotyping and population genetics in Cold War Mexico: Armendares’s and Lisker’s characterization of child and indigenous populations, 1960s-1980s

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Radiation Science After the Cold War. The Politics of Measurement, Risk, and Compensation in Kazakhstan

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