Drugs and double binds: racial identification and pharmacogenomics in a system of binary race logic. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • People respond to drugs in different ways depending on their genotype. Some geneticists and medical researchers have suggested using race as a substitute for genotype in prescribing medication. Overall, individuals resist the prescription of medication based on race, but some minority individuals, although indicating resistance and suspicion, ultimately choose race-based medication. This can be explained by the operation of Burkean identification in a system of binary race logic. Although individuals resist race-based medication and recognize race is not a legitimate genetic category, their identification with a racial-ethnic group places them in a double bind between choosing race-based medication or denying their racial identification.

published proceedings

  • Health Commun

author list (cited authors)

  • Lynch, J., & Dubriwny, T.

citation count

  • 9

complete list of authors

  • Lynch, John||Dubriwny, Tasha

publication date

  • January 2006