Jenny Reardon
Biographic Data
| ID | 94855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Reardon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Reardon |
| SIGNATURE | REARDON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9286-0259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 351 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded Elsi’ in U.S. genomic medicine
Calls to identify, explore, and address ethical and social issues as part of the design and implementation of scientific research are now widespread. One way of doing so is through an embedded approach, where ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) researchers are situated within larger scientific research studies. We trace the emergence of the ‘embedded ELSI’ approach to integration alongside the development of genomic medicine. In partic…
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020
STS theories of biocapital conceptualize how biomedical knowledge and capital form together. Though these formations of biocapital often are located in large urban centers, few scholars have attended to how they are transforming urban spaces and places. In this paper we argue that the twinned technological development of cells and cities concentrates economic and symbolic capital and sets in motion contentious practices we name urban biopolitics …
The pathos of precision
Why and How Bioethics Must Turn toward Justice: A Modest Proposal
In this essay, I argue that to create a genomics that offers more gifts than weights, central attention must be paid to questions of justice. This will require expanding bioethical imaginations so that they grasp and can respond to questions of structural inequity. It will necessitate building novel coalitions and collaborations that turn the attention of bioethical governance away from narrow individual questions such as, “Do I consent?” and tow…
Race, Rome and the genome1
The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge after the Genome
Indigenous body parts, mutating temporalities, and the half-lives of postcolonial technoscience
Biological samples collected from indigenous communities from the mid-20th century for scientific study and preserved in freezers of the Global North have been at the center of a number of controversies. This essay explores why the problem of indigenous biospecimens has returned to critical attention frequently over the past two decades, and why and how Science and Technology Studies should attend to this problem. We propose that mutation - the v…
On the Emergence of Science and Justice
In the last few years, justice has emerged as a matter of concern for the contemporary constitution of technoscience. Increasingly, both practicing scientists and engineers and scholars of science and technology cite justice as an organizing theme of their work. In this essay, I consider why "science and justice" might be arising now. I then ask after the opportunities, but also the dangers, of this formation. By way of example, I explore the ope…
Your DNA IsOurHistory: Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property
During the nineteenth century, the American School of Anthropology enfolded Native peoples into their histories, claiming knowledge about and artifacts of these cultures as their rightful inheritance and property. Drawing both on the Genographic Project and the recent struggles between Arizona State University and the Havasupai Tribe over the use of Havasupai DNA, in this essay we describe how similar enfoldments continue today-despite most conte…
The Democratic, Anti-Racist Genome? Technoscience at the Limits of Liberalism
The opening decade of this millennium witnessed genome scientists, policy makers, critical race theorists and world leaders standing together to pronounce the anti-racist democratic potential of human genomics. Understanding and assessing this rise of ‘anti-racist, democratic genomics’ requires distinguishing between two problems of power and science: the first characterized by what Michel Foucault labeled states of domination; the second by what…
Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics
In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "isolated indigenous populations." Their initiative, which became known as the Human Genome Diversity Project, generated early enthusiasm from those who believed it would enable huge advances in our understanding of human evolution. However, vocal criticism soon emerged. Physical anthropologists accuse…
Anti-colonial Genomic Practice?” Learning from the Genographic Project and the Chacmool Conference
I want to commend the organizers of the Chacmool Conference panel. All too often attempts to discuss the broader social and cultural dimensions of genetic studies of ancient human migrations devolve into simplistic celebrations or condemnations. It is heartening to find here an example of a conference session that managed to avoid these dangerous poles, and to grapple instead with the hard task of discerning the issues raised and not raised by ge…
The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing
Commercially available tests of genetic ancestry have significant scientific limitations, but are serious matters for many test-takers.
Democratic Mis-haps: The Problem of Democratization in a Time of Biopolitics
Decoding Race and Human Difference in a Genomic Age
jenny reardon is Assistant Research Professor of Women's Studies and Scholar in Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University. In the academic year 2004-2005 she will be a Scholar in Residence at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. Her book Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in December of 2004
The Human Genome Diversity Project: A Case Study in Coproduction
Since its inception in 1991, the design of the proposed Human Genome Diversity Project has shifted several times. However, one unchanging and central Project goal is to collect blood and other human tissue samples from `genetically distinct' indigenous groups around the globe. This goal has proved highly controversial, and the Diversity Project has thus far failed to move beyond the planning stage. In this paper I argue that the reason for the Pr…
Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics
In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "isolated indigenous populations." Their initiative, which became known as the Human Genome Diversity Project, generated early enthusiasm from those who believed it would enable huge advances in our understanding of human evolution. However, vocal criticism soon emerged. Physical anthropologists accuse…
Your DNA IsOurHistory: Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property
During the nineteenth century, the American School of Anthropology enfolded Native peoples into their histories, claiming knowledge about and artifacts of these cultures as their rightful inheritance and property. Drawing both on the Genographic Project and the recent struggles between Arizona State University and the Havasupai Tribe over the use of Havasupai DNA, in this essay we describe how similar enfoldments continue today-despite most conte…
Indigenous body parts, mutating temporalities, and the half-lives of postcolonial technoscience
Biological samples collected from indigenous communities from the mid-20th century for scientific study and preserved in freezers of the Global North have been at the center of a number of controversies. This essay explores why the problem of indigenous biospecimens has returned to critical attention frequently over the past two decades, and why and how Science and Technology Studies should attend to this problem. We propose that mutation - the v…
The Human Genome Diversity Project: A Case Study in Coproduction
Since its inception in 1991, the design of the proposed Human Genome Diversity Project has shifted several times. However, one unchanging and central Project goal is to collect blood and other human tissue samples from `genetically distinct' indigenous groups around the globe. This goal has proved highly controversial, and the Diversity Project has thus far failed to move beyond the planning stage. In this paper I argue that the reason for the Pr…
The Democratic, Anti-Racist Genome? Technoscience at the Limits of Liberalism
The opening decade of this millennium witnessed genome scientists, policy makers, critical race theorists and world leaders standing together to pronounce the anti-racist democratic potential of human genomics. Understanding and assessing this rise of ‘anti-racist, democratic genomics’ requires distinguishing between two problems of power and science: the first characterized by what Michel Foucault labeled states of domination; the second by what…
On the Emergence of Science and Justice
In the last few years, justice has emerged as a matter of concern for the contemporary constitution of technoscience. Increasingly, both practicing scientists and engineers and scholars of science and technology cite justice as an organizing theme of their work. In this essay, I consider why "science and justice" might be arising now. I then ask after the opportunities, but also the dangers, of this formation. By way of example, I explore the ope…
Decoding Race and Human Difference in a Genomic Age
jenny reardon is Assistant Research Professor of Women's Studies and Scholar in Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University. In the academic year 2004-2005 she will be a Scholar in Residence at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. Her book Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in December of 2004
Anti-colonial Genomic Practice?” Learning from the Genographic Project and the Chacmool Conference
I want to commend the organizers of the Chacmool Conference panel. All too often attempts to discuss the broader social and cultural dimensions of genetic studies of ancient human migrations devolve into simplistic celebrations or condemnations. It is heartening to find here an example of a conference session that managed to avoid these dangerous poles, and to grapple instead with the hard task of discerning the issues raised and not raised by ge…
The Human Genome Diversity Project: A Case Study in Coproduction
Since its inception in 1991, the design of the proposed Human Genome Diversity Project has shifted several times. However, one unchanging and central Project goal is to collect blood and other human tissue samples from `genetically distinct' indigenous groups around the globe. This goal has proved highly controversial, and the Diversity Project has thus far failed to move beyond the planning stage. In this paper I argue that the reason for the Pr…
Decoding Race and Human Difference in a Genomic Age
jenny reardon is Assistant Research Professor of Women's Studies and Scholar in Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University. In the academic year 2004-2005 she will be a Scholar in Residence at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. Her book Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics is forthcoming with Princeton University Press in December of 2004
The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing
Commercially available tests of genetic ancestry have significant scientific limitations, but are serious matters for many test-takers.
Democratic Mis-haps: The Problem of Democratization in a Time of Biopolitics
Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics
In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "isolated indigenous populations." Their initiative, which became known as the Human Genome Diversity Project, generated early enthusiasm from those who believed it would enable huge advances in our understanding of human evolution. However, vocal criticism soon emerged. Physical anthropologists accuse…
Anti-colonial Genomic Practice?” Learning from the Genographic Project and the Chacmool Conference
I want to commend the organizers of the Chacmool Conference panel. All too often attempts to discuss the broader social and cultural dimensions of genetic studies of ancient human migrations devolve into simplistic celebrations or condemnations. It is heartening to find here an example of a conference session that managed to avoid these dangerous poles, and to grapple instead with the hard task of discerning the issues raised and not raised by ge…
The Democratic, Anti-Racist Genome? Technoscience at the Limits of Liberalism
The opening decade of this millennium witnessed genome scientists, policy makers, critical race theorists and world leaders standing together to pronounce the anti-racist democratic potential of human genomics. Understanding and assessing this rise of ‘anti-racist, democratic genomics’ requires distinguishing between two problems of power and science: the first characterized by what Michel Foucault labeled states of domination; the second by what…
Your DNA IsOurHistory: Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property
During the nineteenth century, the American School of Anthropology enfolded Native peoples into their histories, claiming knowledge about and artifacts of these cultures as their rightful inheritance and property. Drawing both on the Genographic Project and the recent struggles between Arizona State University and the Havasupai Tribe over the use of Havasupai DNA, in this essay we describe how similar enfoldments continue today-despite most conte…
Indigenous body parts, mutating temporalities, and the half-lives of postcolonial technoscience
Biological samples collected from indigenous communities from the mid-20th century for scientific study and preserved in freezers of the Global North have been at the center of a number of controversies. This essay explores why the problem of indigenous biospecimens has returned to critical attention frequently over the past two decades, and why and how Science and Technology Studies should attend to this problem. We propose that mutation - the v…
On the Emergence of Science and Justice
In the last few years, justice has emerged as a matter of concern for the contemporary constitution of technoscience. Increasingly, both practicing scientists and engineers and scholars of science and technology cite justice as an organizing theme of their work. In this essay, I consider why "science and justice" might be arising now. I then ask after the opportunities, but also the dangers, of this formation. By way of example, I explore the ope…
The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge after the Genome
Race, Rome and the genome1
Why and How Bioethics Must Turn toward Justice: A Modest Proposal
In this essay, I argue that to create a genomics that offers more gifts than weights, central attention must be paid to questions of justice. This will require expanding bioethical imaginations so that they grasp and can respond to questions of structural inequity. It will necessitate building novel coalitions and collaborations that turn the attention of bioethical governance away from narrow individual questions such as, “Do I consent?” and tow…
The pathos of precision
A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded Elsi’ in U.S. genomic medicine
Calls to identify, explore, and address ethical and social issues as part of the design and implementation of scientific research are now widespread. One way of doing so is through an embedded approach, where ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) researchers are situated within larger scientific research studies. We trace the emergence of the ‘embedded ELSI’ approach to integration alongside the development of genomic medicine. In partic…
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020
STS theories of biocapital conceptualize how biomedical knowledge and capital form together. Though these formations of biocapital often are located in large urban centers, few scholars have attended to how they are transforming urban spaces and places. In this paper we argue that the twinned technological development of cells and cities concentrates economic and symbolic capital and sets in motion contentious practices we name urban biopolitics …
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