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COVID-19 has exposed defects in our current political-economic
order: extreme wealth inequality, an ideology-driven government, a
greedy corporate sector, a precarious labour force and a looming
climate catastrophe. This accessible book offers a unique blend of
moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome these
defects. It focuses on two characteristics of contemporary
societies - hegemony and complexity - that have inhibited our
ability to imagine, and take seriously, better practices and
institutions. Considering housing, work, governance, finance,
climate change and more, this book presents feasible and pragmatic
solutions which are informed by a comprehensive vision of a
flourishing, sustainable and richly democratic society.
COVID-19 has exposed defects in our current political-economic
order: extreme wealth inequality, an ideology-driven government, a
greedy corporate sector, a precarious labour force and a looming
climate catastrophe. This accessible book offers a unique blend of
moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome these
defects. It focuses on two characteristics of contemporary
societies - hegemony and complexity - that have inhibited our
ability to imagine, and take seriously, better practices and
institutions. Considering housing, work, governance, finance,
climate change and more, this book presents feasible and pragmatic
solutions which are informed by a comprehensive vision of a
flourishing, sustainable and richly democratic society.
The real heroes of television crime shows in the twenty-first
century are no longer police detectives but forensic technologies.
The immense popularity of high-tech crime television shows has
changed the way in which crime scene work is viewed. The term
'CSI-effect' was coined to signify a situation where people's views
and practices have been influenced by such media representations,
e.g. judges and jurors putting more weight on forensic evidence
that has been produced with high-tech tools - in particular, DNA
evidence - than on other kinds of evidence. While considerable
scholarly attention has been paid to examining the CSI effect on
publics, jurors, judges, and police investigators, prisoners' views
on forensic technologies and policing have been under-explored.
Drawing on a research sample of over 50 interviews carried out with
prisoners in Portugal and Austria, this groundbreaking book shows
how prisoners view crime scene traces, how they understand crime
scene technologies, and what effect they attribute to the existence
of large police databases on their own lives, careers, and futures.
Through critically engaging with STS, sociological and
criminological perspectives on the use of DNA technologies within
the criminal justice system, this work provides the reader with
valuable insights into the effect of different legal, political,
discursive, and historical configurations on how crime scene
technologies are utilized by the police and related to by convicted
offenders.
Recent debate about the ethical and regulatory dimensions of
developments in genetics has sidelined societal and cultural
aspects, which arguably are indispensable for a nuanced
understanding of the complexities of the topic. Regulatory and
ethical debates benefit from taking seriously this 'third
dimension' of culture, which often determines the configurations
and limits of the space within which scientific, ethical and legal
debate can take place. To fill this gap, this volume brings
together contributions exploring the mutual relationships between
genetics, markets, societies and identities in genetics and
genomics. It draws upon the recent transdisciplinary debate on how
socio-cultural factors influence understandings of 'genetics2.0'
and shows how individual and collective identities are challenged
or reinforced by cultural meanings and practices of genetics. This
book will become a standard reference for everyone seeking to make
sense of the controversies and shifts in the field of genetics in
the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Recent debate about the ethical and regulatory dimensions of
developments in genetics has sidelined societal and cultural
aspects, which arguably are indispensable for a nuanced
understanding of the complexities of the topic. Regulatory and
ethical debates benefit from taking seriously this 'third
dimension' of culture, which often determines the configurations
and limits of the space within which scientific, ethical and legal
debate can take place. To fill this gap, this volume brings
together contributions exploring the mutual relationships between
genetics, markets, societies and identities in genetics and
genomics. It draws upon the recent transdisciplinary debate on how
socio-cultural factors influence understandings of 'genetics2.0'
and shows how individual and collective identities are challenged
or reinforced by cultural meanings and practices of genetics. This
book will become a standard reference for everyone seeking to make
sense of the controversies and shifts in the field of genetics in
the second decade of the twenty-first century.
The real heroes of television crime shows in the twenty-first
century are no longer police detectives but forensic technologies.
The immense popularity of high-tech crime television shows has
changed the way in which crime scene work is viewed. The term
'CSI-effect' was coined to signify a situation where people's views
and practices have been influenced by such media representations,
e.g. judges and jurors putting more weight on forensic evidence
that has been produced with high-tech tools - in particular, DNA
evidence - than on other kinds of evidence. While considerable
scholarly attention has been paid to examining the CSI effect on
publics, jurors, judges, and police investigators, prisoners' views
on forensic technologies and policing have been under-explored.
Drawing on a research sample of over 50 interviews carried out with
prisoners in Portugal and Austria, this groundbreaking book shows
how prisoners view crime scene traces, how they understand crime
scene technologies, and what effect they attribute to the existence
of large police databases on their own lives, careers, and futures.
Through critically engaging with STS, sociological and
criminological perspectives on the use of DNA technologies within
the criminal justice system, this work provides the reader with
valuable insights into the effect of different legal, political,
discursive, and historical configurations on how crime scene
technologies are utilized by the police and related to by convicted
offenders.
The Handbook provides an essential resource at the interface of
Genomics, Health and Society, and forms a crucial research tool for
both new students and established scholars across biomedicine and
social sciences. Building from and extending the first Routledge
Handbook of Genetics and Society, the book offers a comprehensive
introduction to pivotal themes within the field, an overview of the
current state of the art knowledge on genomics, science and
society, and an outline of emerging areas of research. Key themes
addressed include the way genomic based DNA technologies have
become incorporated into diverse arenas of clinical practice and
research whilst also extending beyond the clinic; the role of
genomics in contemporary 'bioeconomies'; how challenges in the
governance of medical genomics can both reconfigure and stabilise
regulatory processes and jurisdictional boundaries; how questions
of diversity and justice are situated across different national and
transnational terrains of genomic research; and how genomics
informs - and is shaped by - developments in fields such as
epigenetics, synthetic biology, stem cell, microbial and animal
model research. Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a
downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315451695-13
Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315451695-28
Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time,
effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality
Medicine has been personal long before the concept of "personalized
medicine" became popular. Health professionals have always taken
into consideration the individual characteristics of their patients
when diagnosing, and treating them. Patients have cared for
themselves and for each other, contributed to medical research, and
advocated for new treatments. Given this history, why has the
notion of personalized medicine gained so much traction at the
beginning of the new millennium? Personalized Medicine investigates
the recent movement for patients' involvement in how they are
treated, diagnosed, and medicated; a movement that accompanies the
increasingly popular idea that people should be proactive,
well-informed participants in their own healthcare. While it is
often the case that participatory practices in medicine are
celebrated as instances of patient empowerment or, alternatively,
are dismissed as cases of patient exploitation, Barbara Prainsack
challenges these views to illustrate how personalized medicine can
give rise to a technology-focused individualism, yet also present
new opportunities to strengthen solidarity. Facing the future, this
book reveals how medicine informed by digital, quantified, and
computable information is already changing the personalization
movement, providing a contemporary twist on how medical symptoms or
ailments are shared and discussed in society. Bringing together
empirical work and critical scholarship from medicine, public
health, data governance, bioethics, and digital sociology,
Personalized Medicine analyzes the challenges of personalization
driven by patient work and data. This compelling volume proposes an
understanding that uses novel technological practices to foreground
the needs and interests of patients, instead of being ruled by
them.
The Handbook provides an essential resource at the interface of
Genomics, Health and Society, and forms a crucial research tool for
both new students and established scholars across biomedicine and
social sciences. Building from and extending the first Routledge
Handbook of Genetics and Society, the book offers a comprehensive
introduction to pivotal themes within the field, an overview of the
current state of the art knowledge on genomics, science and
society, and an outline of emerging areas of research. Key themes
addressed include the way genomic based DNA technologies have
become incorporated into diverse arenas of clinical practice and
research whilst also extending beyond the clinic; the role of
genomics in contemporary 'bioeconomies'; how challenges in the
governance of medical genomics can both reconfigure and stabilise
regulatory processes and jurisdictional boundaries; how questions
of diversity and justice are situated across different national and
transnational terrains of genomic research; and how genomics
informs - and is shaped by - developments in fields such as
epigenetics, synthetic biology, stem cell, microbial and animal
model research. Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a
downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315451695-13
Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315451695-28
Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time,
effort, and information required from patients to make it a reality
Medicine has been personal long before the concept of "personalized
medicine" became popular. Health professionals have always taken
into consideration the individual characteristics of their patients
when diagnosing, and treating them. Patients have cared for
themselves and for each other, contributed to medical research, and
advocated for new treatments. Given this history, why has the
notion of personalized medicine gained so much traction at the
beginning of the new millennium? Personalized Medicine investigates
the recent movement for patients' involvement in how they are
treated, diagnosed, and medicated; a movement that accompanies the
increasingly popular idea that people should be proactive,
well-informed participants in their own healthcare. While it is
often the case that participatory practices in medicine are
celebrated as instances of patient empowerment or, alternatively,
are dismissed as cases of patient exploitation, Barbara Prainsack
challenges these views to illustrate how personalized medicine can
give rise to a technology-focused individualism, yet also present
new opportunities to strengthen solidarity. Facing the future, this
book reveals how medicine informed by digital, quantified, and
computable information is already changing the personalization
movement, providing a contemporary twist on how medical symptoms or
ailments are shared and discussed in society. Bringing together
empirical work and critical scholarship from medicine, public
health, data governance, bioethics, and digital sociology,
Personalized Medicine analyzes the challenges of personalization
driven by patient work and data. This compelling volume proposes an
understanding that uses novel technological practices to foreground
the needs and interests of patients, instead of being ruled by
them.
As DNA forensic profiling and databasing become established as key
technologies in the toolbox of the forensic sciences, their
expanding use raises important issues that promise to touch
everyone's lives. In an authoritative global investigation of a
diverse range of countries, including those at the forefront of
these technologies' development and use, this book identifies and
provides critical reflection upon the many issues of privacy;
distributive justice; DNA information system ownership;
biosurveillance; function creep; the reliability of collection,
storage and analysis of DNA profiles; the possibility of
transferring medical DNA information to forensics databases; and
democratic involvement and transparency in governance, an emergent
key theme. This book is timely and significant in providing the
essential background and discussion of the ethical, legal and
societal dimensions for academics, practitioners, public interest
and criminal justice organisations, and students of the life
sciences, law, politics, and sociology.
Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia, as research
universities funnel their financial resources toward collaborations
between faculty in different disciplines. In theory,
interdisciplinary collaboration breaks down artificial divisions
between different departments, allowing more innovative and
sophisticated research to flourish. But does it actually work this
way in practice? Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration puts
the common beliefs about such research to the test, using empirical
data gathered by scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great
Britain. The book's contributors critically interrogate the
assumptions underlying the fervor for interdisciplinarity. Their
attentive scholarship reveals how, for all its potential benefits,
interdisciplinary collaboration is neither immune to academia's
status hierarchies, nor a simple antidote to the alleged
shortcomings of disciplinary study.
In times of global economic and political crises, the notion of
solidarity is gaining new currency. This book argues that a
solidarity-based perspective can help us to find new ways to
address pressing problems. Exemplified by three case studies from
the field of biomedicine: databases for health and disease
research, personalised healthcare, and organ donation, it explores
how solidarity can make a difference in how we frame problems, and
in the policy solutions that we can offer.
In times of global economic and political crises, the notion of
solidarity is gaining new currency. This book argues that a
solidarity-based perspective can help us to find new ways to
address pressing problems. Exemplified by three case studies from
the field of biomedicine: databases for health and disease
research, personalised healthcare, and organ donation, it explores
how solidarity can make a difference in how we frame problems, and
in the policy solutions that we can offer.
As DNA forensic profiling and databasing become established as key
technologies in the toolbox of the forensic sciences, their
expanding use raises important issues that promise to touch
everyone's lives. In an authoritative global investigation of a
diverse range of countries, including those at the forefront of
these technologies' development and use, this book identifies and
provides critical reflection upon the many issues of privacy;
distributive justice; DNA information system ownership;
biosurveillance; function creep; the reliability of collection,
storage and analysis of DNA profiles; the possibility of
transferring medical DNA information to forensics databases; and
democratic involvement and transparency in governance, an emergent
key theme. This book is timely and significant in providing the
essential background and discussion of the ethical, legal and
societal dimensions for academics, practitioners, public interest
and criminal justice organisations, and students of the life
sciences, law, politics, and sociology.
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