Barbara Prainsack, Silke Schicktanz, Gabriele Werner-Felmayer

Genetics as Social Practice

Transdisciplinary Views on Science and Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent debate about the ethical and regulatory dimensions of developments in genetics has sidelined societal and cultural aspects, which arguably are indispensable for a nuanced understanding of the complexities of the topic. Regulatory and ethical debates benefit from taking seriously this 'third dimension' of culture, which often determines the configurations and limits of the space within which scientific, ethical and legal debate can take place. To fill this gap, this volume brings together contributions exploring the mutual relationships between genetics, markets, societies and identities in genetics and genomics. It draws upon the recent transdisciplinary debate on how socio-cultural factors influence understandings of 'genetics2.0' and shows how individual and collective identities are challenged or reinforced by cultural meanings and practices of genetics. This book will become a standard reference for everyone seeking to make sense of the controversies and shifts in the field of genetics in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781409455486
• ISBN-10: 1409455483
• Artikelnr.: 41245449

Autorenporträt

Barbara Prainsack is Reader in Sociology in the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King's College London, UK. Silke Schicktanz is Professor of Culture and Ethics of Biomedicine at the University Medical Centre Göttingen, Germany. Gabriele Werner-Felmayer is University Professor of Medical Biochemistry at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Geneticising Life: A Collective Endeavour and its Challenges
Barbara Prainsack
Silke Schicktanz
Gabriele Werner-Felmayer; Part I Creating Identities; Chapter 2 Will Personal Genomic Information Transform One's Self?
Jennifer R. Fishman
Michelle L. McGowan; Chapter 3 The Changing Self: Philosophical Concepts of Self and Personal Identity in a Post-clinical Age of Genetics
Josef Quitterer; Chapter 4 1An earlier version of this chapter appeared in Race and the Genetic Revolution
edited by S. Krimsky and K.Sloan. New York: Columbia University Press
2010.
Troy Duster; Chapter 5 Other Stories: Artistic Explorations of Genealogy and Identity
Priska Gisler
Mo Diener
Luzia Hürzeler; Part II Sharing Knowledge; Chapter 6 1Portions of this essay were originally published in Czas Kultury (6
2010).
Paul Vanouse; Chapter 7 Consequences of Sequences
Codes and Messages:
Gabriele Werner-Felmayer; Chapter 8 The Ethics of Patenting in Genetics: A Second Enclosure of the Commons?
Sigrid Sterckx
Julian Cockbain; Part III Part Icipating in the Social Laboratory; Chapter 9 Understanding Part Icipation: The 'Citizen Science' of Genetics
Barbara Prainsack; Chapter 10 LabouringMe
LabouringUs
Gisli Palsson; Chapter 11 Making Responsible Life Plans: Cultural Differences in Lay Attitudes toward Predictive Genetic Testing for Late-Onset Diseases
Aviad E. Raz
Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty
Julia Inthorn
Silke Schicktanz; Chapter 12 Genetic Responsibility Revisited: Moral and Cultural Implications of Genetic Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease
Silke Schicktanz
Friederike Kogel;