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Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine (Hardcover, New)
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Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine (Hardcover, New)
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Genetic research increasingly dominates medical thought and
practice in the United States and in many other industrialized
nations. Susan Lindee's original study explores the institutions,
disciplines, and ideas that initiated the reconfiguration of
genetic medicine from a marginal field in the mid-1950s to a core
research frontier of biomedicine. Tracing the work of geneticists
and other experts in identifying and classifying disease during the
explosive period between 1950 and 1980, Lindee identifies the
individual "moments of truth" that moved the field away from its
eugenic past to the center of a new world view in which nearly all
disease is understood to be fundamentally genetic. She suggests
that these moments of truth were experienced not only by scientists
but also by those who had familial, intimate, emotional knowledge
of hereditary disease: patients, family members, and research
subjects. Focusing on benchmarks in the field-such as the rise of
neonatal testing in the 1960s, genetic studies of unique human
populations such as the Amish, the development of human
cytogenetics and human behavioral genetics, and the efforts to find
genes for rare diseases such as familial dysautonomia-she tracks
the emergence of a biomedical consensus that nearly all disease is
genetic disease. Using the success of this field as a point of
entry, Lindee chronicles both the production of knowledge in
biomedicine and changes in the cultural meaning of the body in the
late twentieth century. She suggests that scientific knowledge is a
community project that is shaped directly by people in many
different social and professional locations. The power to
experience and report scientific truth may be much more dispersed
than it sometimes appears, because people know things about their
own bodies, and their knowledge has often been incorporated into
the technical infrastructure of genomic medicine. Lindee's
pathbreaking study shows the interdependence of technical and
social parameters in contemporary biomedicine.
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Imprint: |
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2005 |
First published: |
2005 |
Authors: |
M.Susan Lindee
(Associate Professor)
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
288 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8018-8175-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences >
Medical genetics
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LSN: |
0-8018-8175-7 |
Barcode: |
9780801881756 |
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