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Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge: Science and Citizenship in the Cultural Context of the 'New' Genetics

Autor Sahra Gibbon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2007
The book examines the social and cultural context of new genetic knowledge associated with breast cancer. It looks at how this knowledge and technologies are used and received in two contrasting social arenas - cancer genetic clinics and a breast cancer research charity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349547548
ISBN-10: 1349547549
Pagini: 221
Ilustrații: IX, 221 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2007
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface Introduction PART 1: CLINICAL BREAST CANCER GENETICS: PATIENTS, PRACTITIONERS AND PREDICTIVE MEDICINE The Enrolment of Patients: Visibility, Voice and Breast Cancer Activism Technologies of the Clinic; Tools, Tests and Explanatory Strategies Constructing Patienthood: The Care of Predictive Medicine and Female Nurturance Diviners and Pastoral Keepers: Working in Clinical Breast Cancer Genetics PART 2: A BREAST CANCER RESEARCH CHARITY: CHARITY, BREAST CANCER 'ACTIVISM' AND THE QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE The Alchemy of Loss and Hope: Fundraising as Memorialisation Between Geno-hype and Hope: Managing Science and Ethics in Post-genomic Spaces Lab Tours, Scientists and Making 'Monuments' for the Living Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Notă biografică

SAHRA GIBBON is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Anthropology Department at University College London, UK. She has a longstanding interest in the social and cultural dimensions of developments in genomics and the dynamic interface between differently constituted sciences and publics. She teaches on a range of courses focussing on the anthropology of medicine, science and technology