Biosocialities, genetics and the social sciences [electronic resource] : making biologies and identities / edited by Sahra Gibbon and Carlos Novas
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008Description: 1 online resource (ix, 198 p.) : illISBN: - 9780203945940 (electronic bk.)
- 0203945948 (electronic bk.)
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UMPLIB GAMBANG | QH430 .B56 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 0000056206 |
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : biosocialities, genetics and the social sciences / Sahra Gibbon and Carlos Novas -- Charity, breast cancer activism and the iconic figure of the BRCA carrier / Sahra Gibbon -- Brains, pedigrees, and promises : lessons from the politics of autism genetics / Chloe Silverman -- Biosociality and susceptibility genes : a cautionary tale / Margaret Lock -- Biology, sociality and reproductive modernity in Ecuadorian in-vitro fertilization : the particulars of place / Elizabeth F.S. Roberts -- Biosociality and biocrossings : encounters with assisted conception and embryonic stem cells in India / Aditya Bharadwaj -- Synecdochic ricochets : biosocialities in a Jerusalem IVF clinic / Michal Nahman -- Patients, profits and values : myozyme as an exemplar of biosociality / Carlos Novas -- Biocapital as an emergent form of life : speculations on the figure of the experimental subject / Kaushik Sunder Rajan -- Afterword : concept work / Paul Rabinow
Mode of access: Internet