Full article: Genomic Contextualism: Shifting the Rhetoric of Genetic Exceptionalism

January 1, 2026

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2018.1544304

Human genome exceptionalism is the idea that genetic information is uniquely powerful, personal, and different from other medical data, requiring special legal and ethical protections, but many argue this view is outdated, hindering research and policy by treating genetics as fundamentally separate rather than as an intimate, but contextual, part of a person’s health information