인종과 유전: 게놈 시대에 은폐된 인종의 자리

• 영문명: Race and Genetics: The Concealed Location of Race in a Genomic Age
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 김준년(Junyon Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제49집 3호, 95~126쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.12.30

영문 초록

This essay concerns itself with the insidious return of race in the post-racial era of America. Perhaps most insidious is the way in which the vestigial remains of race come back in the field of health and medicine after the Human Genome Project is completed. Ironically, by redefining race as a biological category written in the genome, biotechnologies have undermined not only the scientific manifesto that human beings are 99.9 percent the same but also a hopeful anticipation that race may not be identified in our genes. Given such circumstances, I attempt to investigate how race is reappropriated in genetics, pharmacogenomics, and DNA-related biotechnology. For this purpose, I look carefully into the birth of BiDil which was approved as the first “race-specific” drug by the FDA in 2005. Conceding that BiDil was legally and commercially constructed as a “race-specific” drug, I come up with the three reasons of why BiDil did not end up in a total fiasco. Then drawing on Michel Foucault’s conceptualization of noso-politics and bio-politics, I elaborate on the discourse of race and public health, which should be reconfigurated in the context of biocitizenship.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가며: 인문학과 과학의 틈새에서 잔존하는 인종

Ⅱ. 게놈 의약이 투사한 인종의 환영

Ⅲ. 생명관리정치가 추구하는 인종과 의료보건

Ⅳ. 나가며: 인종의 눈물 혹은 미소

키워드

인종 유전학 게놈 바이딜 생명관리정치 race genetics genome BiDil bio-politics