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Experiencing the New Genetics

Name: Experiencing the New Genetics
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
SKU: 9780812217209
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Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier

Szerző: Kaja Finkler

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Over the past several decades there has been an explosion of interest in genetics and genetic inheri...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Kaja Finkler

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2000

oldal

296

EAN

9780812217209

ISBN

0812217209

Enbook ID

04723229

Kiadó

University of Pennsylvania Press

Súly

485

Méretek

152 x 229 x 19

Teljes leírás

Over the past several decades there has been an explosion of interest in genetics and genetic inheritance within both the research community and the mass media. The science of genetics now forecasts great advances in alleviating disease and prolonging human life, placing the family and kin group under the spotlight. In Experiencing the New Genetics, Kaja Finkler argues that the often uncritical presentation of research on genetic inheritance as well as the attitudes of some in the biomedical establishment contribute to a "genetic essentialism," a new genetic determinism, and the medicalization of kinship in American society. She explores some of the social and cultural consequences of this phenomenon. Finkler discovers that the new genetics can turn a healthy person into a perpetual patient, complicate the redefinition of the family that has been occurring in American society for the past few decades, and lead to the abdication of responsibility for addressing the problem of unhealthy environmental conditions. Experiencing the New Genetics will assist scholars and general readers alike in making sense of this timely and multifaceted issue.