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Racializing drug design: Implications if pharmacogenomics for health disparities

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  • Lee, S.S.-J.

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Current practices of using "race" in pharmacogenomics research demands consideration of the ethical and social implications for understandings of group difference and for efforts to eliminate health disparities. This discussion focuses on an "infrastructure of racialization" created by current trajectories of research on genetic differences among racially identified groups, the use of race as a proxy for risk in clinical practice, and increasing interest in new market niches by the pharmaceutical industry. The confluence of these factors has resulted in the conflation of genes, disease, and race. I argue that public investment in pharmacogenomics requires careful consideration of current inequities in health status and social and ethical concerns over reifying race and issues of distributive justice.

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  • Lee, S.S.-J., 2005. "Racializing drug design: Implications if pharmacogenomics for health disparities," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 95(12), pages 2133-2138.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2005.068676_5
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.068676
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    1. Hunt, Linda M. & Megyesi, Mary S., 2008. "The ambiguous meanings of the racial/ethnic categories routinely used in human genetics research," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 66(2), pages 349-361, January.
    2. Lee, Catherine, 2009. ""Race" and "ethnicity" in biomedical research: How do scientists construct and explain differences in health?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 68(6), pages 1183-1190, March.
    3. Mulinari, Shai & Vilhelmsson, Andreas & Ozieranski, Piotr & Bredström, Anna, 2021. "Is there evidence for the racialization of pharmaceutical regulation? Systematic comparison of new drugs approved over five years in the USA and the EU," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 280(C).

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