Abstract (may include machine translation)
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 |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7-28 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Traditiones |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Sep 2025 |
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Keywords
- East Central Europe
- Roma
- population genetics
- public health
- race/ethnicity
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