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ArticleMedical anthropology quarterly2013

Science, sentiment, and the state: community genetics and pursuit of public health in Cuba.

Sahra Elizabeth Gibbon

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Article in Medical anthropology quarterly, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Delivering genomic medicine in the United Kingdom National Health Service: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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Sahra Elizabeth GibbonDepartment of Anthropology, University College, London.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Contributing to an emerging field of social science literature by examining the translation of genomic medicine across global and transnational fields of research and medicine, this article examines how genetics is allied to public health in Cuba. It examines the sociopolitical and cultural discourses and practices that constitute community genetics or challenge or impede the translation and expansion of genomics as public health. Focusing on the experience of health practitioners, the article explores how their work is circumscribed by cultural values and social ideologies that collectively reveal an unexpected heterogeneity in how genetics is being constituted and reproduced. Although the Western quest for genomics as "personal medicine" is revealed here as both ideologically and practically problematic, such challenges paradoxically work to reinforce a commitment to maintaining the distinctive field of Cuban community genetics in its orientation to collective public health.

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Community Health ServicesGenetic ServicesPublic HealthAnthropology, MedicalCubaFemaleHumansMaleCubagenomicshealth professionalspublic health

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PMID24213970
PMCPMC4430045

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