Ordinary Genomes - Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities

Informationen zum Autor Karen-Sue Taussig is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung An ethnography of genomics! a global scientific enterprise! as it is understood and practiced in the Netherlands. It's analysis of the Dutch case illustrates the broader phenomenon of the entwining of scientific knowledge and culture: genetics may transform society! but society also transforms genetics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Karen-Sue Taussig
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2009
• EAN: 9780822345169
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4516-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Experimental Futures: Technolo; Experimental Futures; Experimental Futures: Technolo
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries