Constructing populations in biobanking
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Constructing populations in biobanking. / Tupasela, Aaro; Snell, Karoliina; Cañada, Jose a.
In: Life Sciences, Society and Policy, Vol. 11, No. 5, 2015.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Constructing populations in biobanking
AU - Tupasela, Aaro
AU - Snell, Karoliina
AU - Cañada, Jose a.
N1 - Life Sciences, Society and Policy201511:5 DOI: 10.1186/s40504-015-0024-0
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This article poses the question of whether biobanking practices and standards are giving rise to the construction of populations from which various biobanking initiatives increasingly draw on for legitimacy? We argue that although recent biobanking policies encourage various forms of engagement with publics to ensure legitimacy, different biobanks conceptualize their engagement strategies very differently. We suggest that biobanks undertake a broad range of different strategies with regard to engagement. We argue that these different approaches to engagement strategies are contributing to the construction of populations, whereby specific nationalities, communities, societies, patient groups and political systems become imbued or bio-objectified with particular characteristics, such as compliant, distant, positive, commercialized or authoritarian. This bio-objectification process is problematic in relation to policy aspirations ascribed to biobanking engagement since it gives rise to reified notions of different populations.
AB - This article poses the question of whether biobanking practices and standards are giving rise to the construction of populations from which various biobanking initiatives increasingly draw on for legitimacy? We argue that although recent biobanking policies encourage various forms of engagement with publics to ensure legitimacy, different biobanks conceptualize their engagement strategies very differently. We suggest that biobanks undertake a broad range of different strategies with regard to engagement. We argue that these different approaches to engagement strategies are contributing to the construction of populations, whereby specific nationalities, communities, societies, patient groups and political systems become imbued or bio-objectified with particular characteristics, such as compliant, distant, positive, commercialized or authoritarian. This bio-objectification process is problematic in relation to policy aspirations ascribed to biobanking engagement since it gives rise to reified notions of different populations.
KW - Biobanking,Bio-objects,Engagement,Governance,Popul
KW - bio-objects
KW - biobanking
KW - engagement
KW - governance
KW - populations
U2 - 10.1186/s40504-015-0024-0
DO - 10.1186/s40504-015-0024-0
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 26194269
VL - 11
JO - Life Sciences, Society and Policy
JF - Life Sciences, Society and Policy
SN - 2195-7819
IS - 5
ER -
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