Unfolding epidemiological stories: How the WHO made frozen blood into a flexible resource for the future

Radin, Joanna

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“…See also Cavalli-Sforza et al(1969, p. 255). The pygmies that Cavalli-Sforza studied lived in the Central African Republic and were therefore also referred to as ''Western pygmies''.16 On the chromosome studies of ''vanishing populations'' supported by the WHO and the IBP, see de Chadarevian (2015b); on the blood collection program of indigenous people more generally and the ethical issues involved in the collection, preservation and re-use of the samples, seeRadin (2013Radin ( , 2014Radin ( , 2017;Kowal and Radin (2015) andRadin and Kowal (2015).…”

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Whose Turn? Chromosome Research and the Study of the Human Genome

Chadarevian

2017

J Hist Biol

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A common account sees the human genome sequencing project of the 1990s as a "natural outgrowth" of the deciphering of the double helical structure of DNA in the 1950s. The essay aims to complicate this neat narrative by putting the spotlight on the field of human chromosome research that flourished at the same time as molecular biology. It suggests that we need to consider both endeavors - the human cytogeneticists who collected samples and looked down the microscope and the molecular biologists who probed the molecular mechanisms of gene function - to understand the rise of the human genome sequencing project and the current genomic practices. In particular, it proposes that what has often been described as the "molecularization" of cytogenetics could equally well be viewed as the turn of molecular biologists to human and medical genetics - a field long occupied by cytogeneticists. These considerations also have implications for the archives that are constructed for future historians and policy makers.

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Whose Turn? Chromosome Research and the Study of the Human Genome

Chadarevian

2017

J Hist Biol

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“…This biochemical race index underlined the racial hierarchy between the European type, having the highest proportion of Type A blood, and the Pacific-American type, having the greatest percentage of Type B (Marks 1994, 62). 9 Historians of blood-group research in the postwar period contend that racist arguments based on blood-group data disappeared in the field of blood-group genetics around the 1960s, although the race concept remained intact in terms of "population" (Mukharji 2014;Radin 2014;Marks 2012).…”

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Blood purity and scientific independence: blood science and postcolonial struggles in Korea, 1926–1975

Hyun

2019

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ArgumentAfter World War II, blood groups became a symbol of anti-racial science. This paper aims to shed new light on the post-WWII history of blood groups and race, illuminating the postcolonial revitalization of racial serology in South Korea. In the prewar period, Japanese serologists developed a serological anthropology of Koreans in tandem with Japanese colonialism. The pioneering Korean hematologist Yi Samyŏl , inspired by decolonization movements during the 1960s, excavated and appropriated colonial serological anthropology to prove Koreans as biologically independent from the Japanese. However, his racial serology of Koreans shared colonial racism with Japanese anthropology, despite his anti-colonial nationalism.

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“…Radin stresses how ‘primitive’ bodies were thought to contain information on human evolution, which in some sense was frozen in the past. These researchers were often connected to Cold War fears of a nuclear disaster, such as James Neel's project of collecting blood samples of Amerindian populations, which was financed by the AEC, and the biomedical expedition sent in 1968 by the CNRS upon request of the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique to study the thyroid metabolism of certain populations in the Amazon (Radin, ; on the work of medical investigators in blood data collecting and their multifaceted connotations see Lizot, ; Bangham, ; Suárez‐Díaz, ; Radin, , pp. 62–73; Ventura Santos, Lindee and de Souza, ).…”

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Ethno-biology during the Cold War: Biocca's Expedition to Amazonia

Cozzoli

2016

Centaurus

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This article focuses on the ethno‐biological expedition to the Amazon headed by Ettore Biocca between November 1962 and July 1963. Biocca, a parasitologist by training, assembled a multidisciplinary team to carry out an ethno‐biological study of Amazon natives. The expedition work covered the natives' customs, myths, chants, diseases and the hallucinogenic compounds and curare they used, and took into account plants and animals common to the Amazon environment. This article aims to contribute to the understanding of the 20th‐century Western approach to the Amazon people and its cultural importance. It sets out to show how Biocca's encyclopaedic work related to the centrality of Amazonia and its peoples in scientific and cultural debates on modernity and Western culture in the 1960s, and how it connects to Cold War anxieties about the disappearance of ‘uncorrupted’ peoples.

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Unfolding epidemiological stories: How the WHO made frozen blood into a flexible resource for the future

Cited by 45 publications

References 53 publications

Whose Turn? Chromosome Research and the Study of the Human Genome

Whose Turn? Chromosome Research and the Study of the Human Genome

Blood purity and scientific independence: blood science and postcolonial struggles in Korea, 1926–1975

Ethno-biology during the Cold War: Biocca's Expedition to Amazonia

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