... DNA sampling, processing, data set sharing, and carefully crafted science into a broader social context, the book underscores the implications of geneticizing disease while illuminating the significance of type 2 diabetes research in American life....

...This chapter characterizes the complex data-gathering research practices in El Camino and the meaning systems which Carl and his field staff use to explain their work, arguing that the social relations of DNA sampling along the border discursively configure Mexican American bodies as biologically...

...This chapter reviews the ways in which racialized DNA samples operate as value-generating cultural artifacts, and also explores the diabetes enterprise through three phases: (1) production (2) circulation, and (3) consumption of knowledge generally and race and ethnicity in particular...