RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric. Being at Genetic Risk : : Toward a Rhetoric of Care / / Kelly Pender.
Rhetorics of choice have dominated the biosocial discourses surrounding BRCA risk for decades, telling women at genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that they are free to choose how (and whether) to deal with their risk. Critics argue that women at genetic risk are, in fact, not free to choos...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2020] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Following Mol’s Lead: From Diabetes to BRCA Risk
- 2 From Ideology to Governmentality: A Constructivist View of Genetic Risk
- 3 Making Risk Real: A Praxiographic Inquiry into Being BRCA+
- 4 Toward a Rhetoric of Care for the At Risk
- Conclusion: Invention in RSTM: Another Moderate Response to the Two-World Problem
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index