Human genes and neoliberal governance
Subtitle: a Foucauldian critique
By: Antoinette Rouvroy.
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415444330; 9780203939390
Subjects: Human genetics -- Law and legislation; Human genetics -- Philosophy
Table of contents: title: The production of genetic knowledge; title: Scientific and economic strength of genetic reductionism; title: Policy implications : discourses of genetic enlightenment as new disciplinary devices; title: Genetic conceptualizations of normality and the idea of genetic justice; title: Beyond genetic universality and authenticity, the lure of the genetic underclass; title: Previews of the future as background; title: Economic and actuarial perspective on genetics and insurance; title: Practical and normative arguments against genetic exceptionalist legislation; title: The changing social role of private insurance : risk as a new representational regime.