Karen-Sue Taussig

Ordinary Genomes

Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the mutually constructive relationship between increasing scientific knowledge of human genetics and cultural identity through a case study of the development and reception of genomics in the Netherlands.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 172mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345169
• ISBN-10: 0822345161
• Artikelnr.: 26552043

Autorenporträt

Karen-Sue Taussig is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Science, Subjectivity, and Citizenship 1
1. "God Made the World and the Dutch Made Holland" 17
2. Genetics and the Organization of Genetic Practice in the Netherlands 57
3. The Social and Clinical Production of Ordinariness 85
4. Backward and Beautiful: Calvinism, Chromosomes, and the Production of
Genetic Knowledge 135
5. Bovine Abominations: Contesting Genetic Technologies 159
Epilogue. Ordinary Genomes in a Globalizing World 189
Notes 201
Bibliography 217
Index 235