Medical Geneticists’ Interpretations of Genetic Disorders in Roma Communities in Post-Socialist Hungary

Barna Szamosi

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Medical Geneticists’ Interpretations of Genetic Disorders in Roma Communities in Post-Socialist Hungary

Barna Szamosi^*

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Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine

Eszterhazy Karoly University

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The article investigates the utilization of ethnic classification by human geneticists in Hungary, with a particular focus on the Roma minority. Drawing on qualitative expert-interviews, it analyzes how historically situated social imaginaries inform the production of genetic knowledge. The study explores how human genetics constructs heritable disorders as ethnic diseases, exposing the epistemological and ethical tensions inherent in translating sociocultural difference into biological terms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7-28
Number of pages	22
Journal	Traditiones
Volume	54
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2025540201
State	Published - 1 Sep 2025

Keywords

East Central Europe
population genetics
public health
race/ethnicity
Roma

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Medical Geneticists’ Interpretations of Genetic Disorders in Roma Communities in Post-Socialist Hungary

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