Race in a Bottle: Law, Commerce and the Production of Racial Categories in Biome

瓶子里的种族：生物群落中的法律、商业和种族类别的生产

• 批准号: 7692665
• 负责人: JONATHAN KAHN
• 金额: $ 4.13万
• 依托单位: HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-26 至 2012-08-25
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7692665
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Affect; African American; Age; Attention; Back; Benign; Bidil; Biological; Biology; Biomedical Research; Biotechnology; Blood; Blood Vessels; Books; Boxing; Caring; Case Study; Categories; Clinical; Clinical Trials; Commerce; Complex; Conflict (Psychology); Data; Development; Discipline; Drug Regulations; Ethnic Origin; Europe; Evolution; FDA approved; Face; Functional disorder; Funding; Genetic; Genetic screening method; Genomics; Grant; Health; Health Personnel; Heart; Heart failure; Human Genome Project; Hydralazine; Incentives; Individual; Insurance Carriers; Intervention; Isosorbide Dinitrate; Journals; Knowledge; Label; Laws; Legal; Legal patent; Legitimacy; Length; Letters; Light; Masks; Massachusetts; Medical; Medicine; Minnows; Molecular Biology; Motivation; Nitric Oxide; Patients; Peer Review; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pharmacogenomics; Pharmacologic Substance; Play; Politics; Population; Press Releases; Principal Investigator; Production; Public Health; Publishing; Race; Recording of previous events; Reliance; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Rights; Role; Science; Shapes; Social Policies; Societies; Source; Stereotyping; Time; United States; Variant; Vasodilator Agents; Work; authority; base; blood pump; ethnic difference; genetic technology; health disparity; heart pharmacology; improved; innovation; interest; news; product development; promoter; prospective; racial and ethnic; social; sociology/anthropology; symposium; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of the project is to provide a book-length treatment of the emergence of race as a central organizing concept in the development of pharmaceuticals and related biotechnological innovations in a post-genomic age. The grant will supply funding for three summers of work to complete this book. The study will be built around a case study of BiDil, the first drug ever approved by the FDA with a race-specific label - for the treatment of heart failure in a "black patient." It will situate this extended case study within a larger context of the emergence of race-based medicine and the continuing, indeed increasing, use of racial categories in biotechnological research and product development. It will explore how the use of race in biomedicine is shaped by a complex interplay among commercial, legal, political and scientific forces and elaborate upon the complex double edge of using race in such contexts. Many people using race in biomedical research and product development are doing so with good intentions but without sufficient care to understanding the potential of such use to reify race as genetic and/or reinforce stigmatizing racial stereotypes. The story is all the more interesting because of the complex motivations and interests underlying the use of race in biotechnological research and product development. The primary actors in this story include genetics and clinicians, regulatory officials and politicians, citizen activists and corporate leaders. Generally speaking they are all people of good faith seeking to improve people's health, but their motivations complex and occasionally conflicting. Exploring the story through their actions and concerns illuminated the difficult double edge of using race in biomedical research and product development - bringing to light in a concrete manner what legal scholar Martha Minnow, in another context, has characterized as the "dilemma of difference," namely "when does treating people differently emphasize their differences and stigmatize or hinder them on that basis? and when does treating people the same become insensitive to their difference and likely to stigmatize or hinder them on that basis?"

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