Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab: 21st Century Mobilisations of Genetics—Introduction to the Special Issue.

Race in science, medicine, and technology A rich body of literature exists on race in the biosciences, biomedicine, and technology. Moving beyond the lab is not moving outside of laboratory science practices or outside of Western science. So, moving beyond the lab is a move to decentre the laboratory as the place of knowledge and instead pursue a commitment to decolonise knowledge practices, even if the knowledge at stake is biomedicine or genetics. Genetic knowledge is paradigmatically laboratory knowledge, and yet its power does not rise or fall on scientific truth claims situated there. [Extracted from the article]