Ordinary genomes
Subtitle: science, citizenship, and genetic identities
By: Karen-Sue Taussig.
Series: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices; Experimental futures
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780822345169; 9780822345343
Subjects: Genetics -- Social aspects -- Netherlands; Group identity -- Netherlands; National characteristics, Dutch; Genetic counseling -- Netherlands
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : science, subjectivity, and citizenship; title: "God made the world and the Dutch made Holland"; title: Genetics and the organization of genetic practice in the Netherlands; title: The social and clinical production of ordinariness -; title: Backward and beautiful : Calvinism, chromosomes, and the production of genetic knowledge; title: Bovine abominations:  contesting genetic technologies; title: Epilogue : ordinary genomes in a globalizing world.