How Genes Matter : : Genetic Medicine as Subjectivisation Practices / / Bernhard Wieser.
Understanding the significance of genetic factors for our lives requires an analysis that goes beyond biological aspects. It is especially necessary to take into account how human beings relate to others and to themselves. Who we are is a result of social action and the ways in which human beings co...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | KörperKulturen
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Subjectivisation as theoretical framework
- 3. Methodology
- Part 1: Knowing about genes
- 4. Genes in the womb
- 5. Coming into being
- Part 2: Making bioscientists accountable
- 6. New conditions for the sciences of life
- 7. ELSA as a heritage of public controversies
- 8. Public accountability of newborn screening
- 9. Ethical boundary work
- 10. Subjectivisation of bioscientists
- Part 3: Being a part of it
- 11. Science, politics, and the public
- 12. Constituting oneself as a researcher
- 13. Negotiating who ELSA researchers are
- Conclusions
- 14. Methodological challenges
- 15. Why science policy context matters
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgement