Published in AIDS Weekly, December 19th, 2005
According to recent research published in the journal Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, "Recent disputes about human population genetics research have been provoked by the field's political vulnerability (the historic imbalance of power between the geneticists and the people they study) and conceptual vulnerability (the mismatch between scientific and popular understandings of the genetic basis of collective identity)."
"The small, isolated groups often studied by this science are now mobilizing themselves as political subjects, pressing sovereignty claims, and demanding control over the...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2005-12-19)
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