Being at Genetic Risk - Toward a Rhetoric of Care

Advocates a conversation around the genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that focuses less on choice and more on care. Offers a new set of conceptual starting points for understanding what is at stake with a BRCA diagnosis and what the focus on choice obstructs from view.

About the author

Kelly Pender is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Technē, from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism: Understanding Writing as a Useful, Teachable Art.

Summary

Advocates a conversation around the genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that focuses less on choice and more on care. Offers a new set of conceptual starting points for understanding what is at stake with a BRCA diagnosis and what the focus on choice obstructs from view.

Product details

• Authors: Kelly Pender, Kelly (Associate Professor of English Pender
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2022
• EAN: 9780271082110
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08211-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 313 g
• Series: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health, Health economics, MEDICAL / Genetics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Communication Studies, Medical Genetics, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Genetic