Breast cancer gene research and medical practices : : transnational perspectives in the time of BRCA / / edited by Sahra Gibbon. [et al.].

• Superior document: Genetics and Society
• TeilnehmendeR: Gibbon, Sahra.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : : Routledge,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Genetics and society (Series)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ISBN: 1135925526; 0203385519; 1135925453
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Sahra Gibbon. [et al.].

The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical programmes for those at high risk of developing breast cancer in the UK, US and Europe. In the intervening fifteen years, the medical institutionalisation of these knowledge-practices and accompanying medical techniques for assessing and managing risk have advanced at a rapid pace across multiple national and transnational arenas, whilst also themselves constituting a highly mobile and shifting terrain