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Racializing narratives: obesity, diabetes and the "Aboriginal" thrifty genotype.

Social science & medicine (1982) - 1 Jun 2006

Fee Margery

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This post-colonial reading of narratives of obesity, diabetes, and the hypothesized "thrifty genotype" ascribed to Aboriginal peoples shows how scientific and popular texts support the belief in biological "race." Although the scientific consensus is that "race" is not a empirical category, many scientists use it without comment as a "crude proxy" for presumed genetic differences. The division between science and...

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PMID: 16426714
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.11.062

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