More than Ethics: Changing Approaches to Research in Human Biology

4区生物学 Q2 Medicine

Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI:10.1353/hub.2017.a925019

Agustín Fuentes

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Abstract

Work in biological anthropology and human biology that engages with, extracts, manipulates, analyzes, and disseminates biological data from and associated with people requires serious ethical investment as central to method, theory, and practice. However, ethics is not enough. Moving beyond a call for better (or more) ethics, there is a core need for anthropological, historical, antiracist/anticolonialist method and theory in dealing with human data (existing, newly collected, and future collections). But there are structures in the academy, historical, financial, hierarchical, discriminatory, that impede sincere and effective actions to make such changes. Encouragingly, calls for structural change and some actions entailing it are under way. But individual efforts are not enough—systemic, profession-level processes need to be addressed.

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超越伦理：改变人类生物学研究方法

生物人类学和人类生物学的工作涉及提取、处理、分析和传播来自人类或与人类相关的生物数据，需要严肃的伦理投资，这是方法、理论和实践的核心。然而，仅有伦理是不够的。除了呼吁更好（或更多）的伦理道德之外，在处理人类数据（现有的、新收集的和未来收集的）时，人类学、历史学、反种族主义/殖民主义方法和理论也是核心需求。但是，学术界存在着历史、财政、等级和歧视性结构，这些结构阻碍了真诚和有效的行动来实现这种变革。令人鼓舞的是，结构变革的呼声和一些相应的行动正在进行之中。但仅有个人的努力是不够的，还需要解决系统性和专业层面的问题。

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Human Biology 生物-生物学

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1.90

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期刊介绍： Human Biology publishes original scientific articles, brief communications, letters to the editor, and review articles on the general topic of biological anthropology. Our main focus is understanding human biological variation and human evolution through a broad range of approaches. We encourage investigators to submit any study on human biological diversity presented from an evolutionary or adaptive perspective. Priority will be given to interdisciplinary studies that seek to better explain the interaction between cultural processes and biological processes in our evolution. Methodological papers are also encouraged. Any computational approach intended to summarize cultural variation is encouraged. Studies that are essentially descriptive or concern only a limited geographic area are acceptable only when they have a wider relevance to understanding human biological variation. Manuscripts may cover any of the following disciplines, once the anthropological focus is apparent: human population genetics, evolutionary and genetic demography, quantitative genetics, evolutionary biology, ancient DNA studies, biological diversity interpreted in terms of adaptation (biometry, physical anthropology), and interdisciplinary research linking biological and cultural diversity (inferred from linguistic variability, ethnological diversity, archaeological evidence, etc.).