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Risks in the Making - Travels in Life Insurance and Genetics

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Ine van Hoyweghen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Maastricht. Klappentext Aids! genetische manipulatie! stamceltransplantaties¿. In een onzekere samenleving als de onze kan wetenschap niet altijd meer een afdoende antwoord bieden voor deze controverses. Ook het internationaal debat over het gebruik van genetica in verzekeringen is tot op heden speculatief en abstract. Dat is niet altijd vruchtbaar als het gaat om het bed Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents - 6[-]Preface - 8[-]Ch.1: Risky Business: The Collision of Genetics and Life Insurance - 10[-]Ch.2: "Genetics Is Not The Issue": Insurers on Genetics and Life Insurance - 28[-]Ch.3: Risky Bodies Stage I: Constituting the Underwriting Practice - 50[-]Ch.4: Risky Bodies Stage II: Governing by Numbers - 68[-]Ch.5: Risky Bodies Stage III: The Art of Underwriting - 98[-]Ch.6: Risky Bodies Future Stage? Risk Carriers and Risk Takers - 120[-]Ch.7: Towards Experimental Learning - 142[-]Glossary - 162[-]Notes - 166[-]Bibliography - 178[-]Index - 194

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Authors Ine Van Hoyweghen, HOYWEGHEN INE VAN
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 21.12.2006
 
EAN 9789053569276
ISBN 978-90-5356-927-6
No. of pages 197
Series Care and Welfare
Care & Welfare
Care and Welfare
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

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