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Hyperdiagnostics: postcolonial utopics of race-based biomedicine.

Medical anthropology - 1 Jul 2009

Whitmarsh Ian

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The expansion of biomedical research into countries outside the United States and Western Europe is positing new biological links between populations based on race. This expansion includes six international projects occurring in Barbados, premised on the idea that the population is genetically re...

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PMID: 20182966
DOI: 10.1080/01459740903073554

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