Sahra (Hrsg.) Gibbon

Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences

Making Biologies and Identities

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Explores the social, cultural and economic transformations that result from innovations in genomic knowledge and technology. This collection uses Paul Rabinow's concept of biosociality to chart the shifts in social relations and ideas about nature, biology and identity brought about by developments in biomedicine.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Novas, Carlos (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-415-40137-1
EAN: 9780415401371
Produktnummer: 3690131
Verlag: Taylor and Francis
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm 498 g
Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 498

Über den Autor

Sahra Gibbon is currently undertaking a Wellcome Trust fellowship at University College London. Her research, which isfocused on the creation of large scale genetic resources such as genetic databases, looks at how different kinds of publics are being recruited into genetic research in the UK and Cuba. Carlos Novas is a Wellcome Trust funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the BIOS Centre, London School of Economics. His is currently working on a 3 year project titled: The Political Economy of Hope: Private Enterprise, Patients' Groups and the Production of Values in the Contemporary Life Sciences. This project examines how advances in the life sciences have fostered the hope that cures or treatments for many hereditary illnesses will be developed in the near future.