The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Early in the twentieth
century, technological breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern …

The collection, use, and distribution of human tissue samples have stressed the new
pathways in which human body parts and related information are becoming productive. This …

Since the sequencing of the human genome, as well as the completion of the first Human
Genome Diversity Project, the benefits of studying one human population over another has …

Purpose The paper contributes to the discussion on valuation in organization studies and
strategic management literature. The nascent literature on valuation practices has examined …

This article poses the question of whether biobanking practices and standards are giving
rise to the construction of populations from which various biobanking initiatives increasingly …

This book is an outcome of my postdoctoral project,“The Politics of Belonging: National
Narrative in the Genomic Age”(2011–2016). The project was funded by a three-year …

Based on the concept of an imagined future community, this article analyzes the relationship
between the establishment of a national biobank (Taiwan Biobank) and nation-building. This …

How do precision medicine initiatives (re) organize relations between individuals and
populations? In this article, we investigate how the curation of national genomic populations …

The idea of genetic authenticity and origin has been an important issue within genetics for
decades for scientific, political, and economic reasons. The question of where species and …

Health policy and academic discourses on rare diseases and people with rare conditions
frequently employ terms such as 'low prevalence'and 'unique'to characterize the smallness …