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 …

It has been widely acknowledged in debates about nationalism and ethnicity that identity
categories used for classifying people along the lines of culture, race, and ethnicity help to …

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 …

Biobanks are crucial institutions in the infrastructure of contemporary life sciences. They
depend on the participation of donors who give tissues and data. Through their participation …

The role that national epic poetry has played in romantic nationalism during the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries is well documented. The role that the new genetics has played in …

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

Incorporating sex into biomedical research is envisioned as key to addressing inequalities in
health. However, feminist research suggests that it is a complicated task. This is, we argue …

An anthropological study based on ethnographic work in Israel and Qatar explores the
relationship between science, particularly genetics, and national identity. Based on …

Genome Finland tells a story of genomic medicine in Finland from the study of rare Finnish
diseases in the 1960s and 1970s to the implementation of personalized medicine in the …