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New Genetics, New Identities (Hardcover, New title)
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New Genetics, New Identities (Hardcover, New title)
Series: Genetics and Society
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New genetic technologies and their applications in biomedicine have
important implications for social identities in contemporary
societies. In medicine, new genetics is increasingly important for
the identification of health and disease, the imputation of
personal and familial risk, and the moral status of those
identified as having genetic susceptibility for inherited
conditions. There are also consequent transformations in national
and ethnic collective identity, and the body and its investigation
is potentially transformed by the possibilities of genetic
investigations and modifications (including the highly
controversial terrains of reproductive technologies and the use of
human embryos in biomedical research).
The papers in this volume, drawn from an international array of
authors, address these issues from a variety of national,
disciplinary and empirical standpoints. An informative read for
postgraduates and professionals in the fields of sociology, social
anthropology, science and technology studies, and environmental
studies, the chapters comprise empirically based and theoretically
informed discussions of key sociological, anthropological,
political and ethical issues.
Using the resources of a wide range of social science disciplines
to provide a comparative approach to complex issues, this superb
collection explores the local and global consequences of the new
genetics, and analyzes the social implications of these advances
for identity formation in a period of rapid social change.
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