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| Introduction: Sociological perspectives on the New Genetics: an overview | 1 | |
| I | Structure and Production of Genetic Knowledge | |
| 1 | Genes as drugs: the social shaping of gene therapy and the reconstruction of genetic disease | 15 |
| 2 | Experts as 'storytellers' in reproductive genetics: exploring key issues | 37 |
| 3 | The human drama of genetics: 'hard' and 'soft' media representations of inherited breast cancer | 59 |
| II | The Social Meanings of Genetics | |
| 4 | Waiting for the cure: mapping the social relations of human gene therapy resarch | 79 |
| 5 | Doing the right thing: genetic risk and responsibility | 97 |
| 6 | There's this thing in our family: Predictive testing and the construction of risk for Huntington Disease | 121 |
| III | The Social Impact and Implications of Genetics | |
| 7 | Defining the 'social': towards an understanding of scientific and medical discourses on the social aspects of the new human genetics | 149 |
| 8 | Losing the plot? Medical and activist discourses of the contemporary genetics and disability | 171 |
| 9 | DNA identification and surveillance creep | 191 |
| Notes on Contributors | 209 | |
| Index | 213 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Ronald Fernandez
reviewed Sociological Perspectives on the New Genetics on April 09, 2018
Sociological Perspectives on the New Genetics
I'm not sure I can take seriously and finish a book that includes, on its first page, the following statement: "Easy food, like easy sex, leads us down a path to waste and destruction of ourselves and the planet we live on." The author doesn't bother, in that preface to the second edition, to explain just what "easy food" or "easy sex" might mean, or why they (particularly the second) necessarily lead to "destruction," nor does the food=sex construction of the book seem particularly necessary for a discussion of food and disease. I'll give this one a try, as I usually like discussions of this and related topics, but I sincerely hope that the quality improves in the main body of the text.
Note: after reading this a bit more, it's fairly interesting, but the language, author's weird perspectives, and constructions continue to get in the way of it being a really well-done book.
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