期刊
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY & HUMAN VALUES
卷 41, 期 2, 页码 194-218出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0162243915595462
关键词
moral economies; quantification; standarization; genetics; epidemiology
资金
- National Human Genome Research Institute's Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research Program of the National Institutes of Health [R01HG005848]
Scientists now agree that common diseases arise through interactions of genetic and environmental factors, but there is less agreement about how scientific research should account for these interactions. This paper examines the politics of quantification in gene-environment interaction (GEI) research. Drawing on interviews and observations with GEI researchers who study common, complex diseases, we describe quantification as an unfolding moral economy of science, in which researchers collectively enact competing virtues. Dominant virtues include molecular precision, in which behavioral and social risk factors are moved into the body, and harmonization, in which scientists create large data sets and common interests in multisited consortia. We describe the negotiations and trade-offs scientists enact in order to produce credible knowledge and the forms of (self-)discipline that shape researchers, their practices, and objects of study. We describe how prevailing techniques of quantification are premised on the shrinking of the environment in the interest of producing harmonized data and harmonious scientists, leading some scientists to argue that social, economic, and political influences on disease patterns are sidelined in postgenomic research. We consider how a variety of GEI researchers navigate quantification's productive and limiting effects on the science of etiological complexity.
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