表观遗传公民权与政治诉求：结构性种族主义分子化的伦理。

IF 1.3 4区医学 Q4 SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL Biosocieties Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI:10.1057/s41292-022-00286-4

Jessica P Cerdeña

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表观遗传学通过捕捉社会经历的分子特征而为健康差异研究提供信息的潜力引起了人们的极大兴趣。本文强调了这些对表观遗传学研究的期望所隐含的担忧，并讨论了将目前表观遗传学研究中的社会痛苦形式 "分子化 "可能带来的影响。从事受压迫人群--尤其是种族边缘化群体--研究的研究人员应进一步预测他们的研究结果可能会被如何解释，以避免助长生物本质论的偏见主张。本文引入了 "表观遗传公民 "的概念，探讨了环境响应性甲基化线索在直接面向消费者的测试、医疗保健和生物政治互动中的应用方式。最后，本文探讨了社会表观遗传学研究的未来以及表观遗传学公民权框架的实用性。

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Epigenetic citizenship and political claims-making: the ethics of molecularizing structural racism.

Epigenetics has generated excitement over its potential to inform health disparities research by capturing the molecular signatures of social experiences. This paper highlights the concerns implied by these expectations of epigenetics research and discusses the possible ramifications of 'molecularizing' the forms of social suffering currently examined in epigenetics studies. Researchers working with oppressed populations-particularly racially marginalized groups-should further anticipate how their results might be interpreted to avoid fueling prejudiced claims of biological essentialism. Introducing the concept of 'epigenetic citizenship,' this paper considers the ways environmentally responsive methylation cues may be used in direct-to-consumer testing, healthcare, and biopolitical interactions. The conclusion addresses the future of social epigenetics research and the utility of an epigenetic citizenship framework.

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Biosocieties SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL-

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期刊介绍： BioSocieties is committed to the scholarly exploration of the crucial social, ethical and policy implications of developments in the life sciences and biomedicine. These developments are increasing our ability to control our own biology; enabling us to create novel life forms; changing our ideas of ‘normality’ and ‘abnormality’; transforming our understanding of personal identity, family relations, ancestry and ‘race’; altering our social and personal expectations and responsibilities; reshaping global economic opportunities and inequalities; creating new global security challenges; and generating new social, ethical, legal and regulatory dilemmas. To address these dilemmas requires us to break out from narrow disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences and humanities, and between these disciplines and the natural sciences, and to develop new ways of thinking about the relations between biology and sociality and between the life sciences and society. BioSocieties provides a crucial forum where the most rigorous social research and critical analysis of these issues can intersect with the work of leading scientists, social researchers, clinicians, regulators and other stakeholders. BioSocieties defines the key intellectual issues at the science-society interface, and offers pathways to the resolution of the critical local, national and global socio-political challenges that arise from scientific and biomedical advances. As the first journal of its kind, BioSocieties publishes scholarship across the social science disciplines, and represents a lively and balanced array of perspectives on controversial issues. In its inaugural year BioSocieties demonstrated the constructive potential of interdisciplinary dialogue and debate across the social and natural sciences. We are becoming the journal of choice not only for social scientists, but also for life scientists interested in the larger social, ethical and policy implications of their work. The journal is international in scope, spanning research and developments in all corners of the globe. BioSocieties is published quarterly, with occasional themed issues that highlight some of the critical questions and problematics of modern biotechnologies. Articles, response pieces, review essays, and self-standing editorial pieces by social and life scientists form a regular part of the journal.