Pharmacogenetics, Race and Global Injustice

Holm, Soren 2008. Pharmacogenetics, Race and Global Injustice. Developing World Bioethics 8 (2) , pp. 82-88. 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2006.00173.x

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Abstract

This paper discusses the link between pharmacogenetics and race, and the global justice issues that the introduction of pharmacogenetics in pharmaceutical research and clinical practice will raise. First, it briefly outlines the likely impact of pharmacogenetics on pharmaceutical research and clinical practice within the next five to ten years and then explores the link between pharmacogenetic traits and ‘race’. It is shown that any link between apparent race and pharmacogenetics is problematic and that race cannot be used as a proxy for pharmacogenetic knowledge. The final section considers the implications of the development of pharmacogenetics for health care systems in low- and middle-income countries.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General) R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	pharmacogenetics; race; global injustice
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing Ltd
ISSN:	1471-8731
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2020 04:52
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/19021

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