Genomic and Viral Sovereignty: Tethering the Materials of Global Biomedicine

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Viruses and genomes have become the subjects of sovereign claims in contemporary biomedical research. These claims invest biological materials with geopolitical attachments to both nation-states and continental regions and seek to alter the property regimes that characterize global biological economies. As rhetorical and juridical devices, sovereign claims over viruses and genomes seek to establish new kinds of en...

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• Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
• Race, Genetics, and Society
• Zoonotic diseases and public health

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723b5122-c8a7-5664-b44a-39ae31112095

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10.1215/08992363-2841904