Genetics, biosociality, and the social sciences
Subtitle: making biologies and identities
By: edited by Sahra Gibbon and Carlos Novas.
Contributors: Gibbon, Sahra.; Novas, Carlos.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415401371; 9780415401388
Subjects: Genetics; Social sciences; Biotechnology; Genetic engineering; Genetics, Medical; Biotechnology; Genetic Engineering; Genome, Human; Reproductive Medicine; Social Medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: biosocialities, genetics, and the social sciences / Sahra Gibbon and Carlos Novas; title: Charity, breast cancer activism, and the iconic figure of the BRCA carrier / Sahra Gibbon; title: Brains, pedigrees, and promises: lessons from the politics of autism genetics / Chloe Silverman; title: Biosociality and susceptibility genes: a cautionary tale / Margaret Lock; title: Biology, sociality, and reproductive modernity in Ecuadorian in-vitro fertilization: the particulars of place / Elizabeth Roberts; title: Biosociality & bio-crossings: encounters with assisted conception and embryonic stem cells in India / Aditya Bhardawaj; title: Synecdochic Ricochets: biosocialities in a Jerusalem IVF clinic / Michal Nahman; title: Patients, profits, and values: myozyme as an exemplar of biosociality / Carlos Novas; title: Biocapital as an emergent form of life: speculations on the figure of the; title: Experimental subject / Kaushik Sunder Rajan; title: Afterword: concept work / Paul Rabinow.