Ethics, epidemiology and the thrifty gene: biological determinism as a health hazard.

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This paper briefly describes the rise of the thrifty genotype hypothesis as an explanation for the late twentieth century epidemic of diabetes, particularly in post-colonial indigenous societies. It looks at some of the ethical consequences of the biological deterministic paradigm, particularly the popular confusion of "genes" with "race" and how this paradigm served to exclude consideration of social...

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