Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies
Subtitle: Intersections of Inquiry (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology)
Contributors: Margaret Lock (Editor); Allan Young (Editor); Alberto Cambrosio (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521655682
Subjects: Medical equipment & techniques; Social & cultural anthropology; Social aspects; Medical / Nursing; Anthropology - General; Social Science; Sociology; Medical technology; Medical anthropology; Biotechnology; Health Care Delivery; Medical / Biotechnology; Medical technology--Social aspects; Medical-Health Care Delivery; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science-Anthropology - General; Anthropology; Medical innovations
First sentence: In this short chapter, I examine what I perceive as the historical relation between molecular biology, gene technology and medicine, and I touch on some aspects of its consequences in the context of the human genome project.