Anna Harris, Susan Kelly, Sally Wyatt

Broschiertes Buch

CyberGenetics

Health genetics and new media

Beschreibung

This critical social science monograph examines direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Focusing on disease testing, it asks, what new social arrangements emerge when a traditionally clinical practice (genetic testing) is taken into new spaces (the internet).

Autor

Anna Harris completed a medical degree at the University of Tasmania, and a Masters and PhD in Medical Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. She has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Universities of Maastricht and Exeter. She has published in clinical and social science journals, and her own blog. Susan Kelly is Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Exeter and Senior Research Fellow in Egenis (Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences). She earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco, followed by a post-doctoral position in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. Sally Wyatt is Programme Leader of the e-Humanities Group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Digital Cultures in Development at Maastricht University. She is the founding co-editor (with Andrew Webster) of the Health, Technology & Society series published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781138351936
• ISBN-10: 1138351938
• Artikelnr.: 53602533