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Genetic Imaginations - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Genetic Imaginations - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Avebury Series in Philosophy
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The title of this book derives from C. Wright Mills' classic The
Sociological Imagination (Penguin, 1970), in which he sees the
essential project of social science as the use of the imagination
to 'grasp history and biography and the relations between the two
in society'. This enables the social scientist to 'range from the
most impersonal and remote transformations to the most intimate
features of the human self'. Another of Mills' concerns was the
relationship between 'the personal troubles of the milieu' and 'the
public issues of social structure' and these are most acutely
illustrated in human genetics, the most personal of the new
technologies. The chapters in this volume address these issues
through discussions of choice and informed decision-making, risks
and hazards, the economic and political organization of new
technology, and the public as well as the scientist's understanding
of science. The methods used range from detailed ethnographies,
through deconstruction's of text and action, to surveys and
interviews.
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