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| Semester | fall semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Henri-Michel Yéré (h.yere@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This class seeks to unpack the ways in which genomic research has risen to become a central field in contemporary healthcare research. We will do so by unpacking some of the new approaches to medication (such as ‘personalised medicine’ and its complicated relationship to ethnicity.) We will interrogate the extent to which the ‘biologisation’ of ethnic difference has come to question the long-standing engagement of anthropology and sociology with the question of ethnicity. We will see how some of the arguments developed in the field of genomic research may have been enlisted in the current wave of ‘race science’ revivalism. We will see whether natural science research is sufficiently equipped from an ethical standpoint to face the challenges that are coming in the wake of what many consider as a scientific revolution under way. |
| Learning objectives | Create connections between the sociology of knowledge and the current developments in healthcare research Engage with the political and social aspects of health sciences Highlight how the politics of identity and citizenship tie in with questions of healthcare research and ethics |
| Bibliography | Adam Hedgecoe, The Politics of Personalised Medicine: Pharmacogenetics in the Clinic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) Nikolas Rose, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007) Duana Fulwilley, The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011) Sahra Gibbon, Barbara Prainsack, Stephen Hilgartner, Janelle Lamoreaux (eds.), The Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society (London: Routledge, 2018) |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Aufbau Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Fields: Public Health and Social Life (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree subject: History) Modul: Politik, Entwicklung und soziale Ungleichheit (Bachelor's degree subject: Sociology) Modul: Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Ungleichheit, Konflikt, Kultur (Master's degree subject: Sociology) Module: Advances in Epidemiology, Statistics and Global & Public Health (Master's Studies: Epidemiology) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Participants are expected to produce three response-papers during the semester Particpants are expected to attend all sessions. They can miss up to two sessions with a justification. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Soziologie |