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Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing
availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited
disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health
benefits to prospective individuals and their families it also
raises complex ethical and moral dilemmas for families as well as
genetic professionals. This book explores the ways in which genetic
testing generates not only probabilities of potential futures, but
also enjoys new forms of social, individual and professional
responsibility. Concerns about confidentiality and informed consent
involving children, the assessment of competence and maturity, the
ability to engage in shared decision-making through acts of
disclosure and choice, are just some of the issues that are
examined in detail.
Psychiatric genetics has become 'Big Biology'. This may come as a
surprising development to those familiar with its controversial
history. From eugenic origins and contentious twin studies to a
global network of laboratories employing high-throughput genetic
and genomic technologies, biological research on psychiatric
disorders has become an international, multidisciplinary assemblage
of massive data resources. How did psychiatric genetics achieve
this scale? How is it socially and epistemically organized? And how
do scientists experience this politics of scale? Psychiatric
Genetics: From Hereditary Madness to Big Biology develops a
sociological approach of exploring the origins of psychiatric
genetics by tracing several distinct styles of scientific reasoning
that coalesced at the beginning of the twentieth century. These
styles of reasoning reveal, among other things, a range of
practices that maintain an extraordinary stability in the face of
radical criticism, internal tensions and scientific
disappointments. The book draws on a variety of methods and
materials to explore these claims. Combining genealogical analysis
of historical literature, rhetorical analysis of scientific review
articles, interviews with scientists, ethnographic observations of
laboratory practices and international conferences, this book
offers a comprehensive and detailed exploration of both local and
global changes in the field of psychiatric genetics.
"Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing
availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited
disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health
benefits to prospective individuals and their families it also
raises complex ethical and moral dilemmas for families as well as
genetic professionals. This book explores the ways in which genetic
testing generates not only probabilities of potential futures, but
also enjoys new forms of social, individual and professional
responsibility. Concerns about confidentiality and informed consent
involving children, the assessment of competence and maturity, the
ability to engage in shared decision-making through acts of
disclosure and choice, are just some of the issues that are
examined in detail"--Provided by publisher.
Psychiatric genetics has become 'Big Biology'. This may come as a
surprising development to those familiar with its controversial
history. From eugenic origins and contentious twin studies to a
global network of laboratories employing high-throughput genetic
and genomic technologies, biological research on psychiatric
disorders has become an international, multidisciplinary assemblage
of massive data resources. How did psychiatric genetics achieve
this scale? How is it socially and epistemically organized? And how
do scientists experience this politics of scale? Psychiatric
Genetics: From Hereditary Madness to Big Biology develops a
sociological approach of exploring the origins of psychiatric
genetics by tracing several distinct styles of scientific reasoning
that coalesced at the beginning of the twentieth century. These
styles of reasoning reveal, among other things, a range of
practices that maintain an extraordinary stability in the face of
radical criticism, internal tensions and scientific
disappointments. The book draws on a variety of methods and
materials to explore these claims. Combining genealogical analysis
of historical literature, rhetorical analysis of scientific review
articles, interviews with scientists, ethnographic observations of
laboratory practices and international conferences, this book
offers a comprehensive and detailed exploration of both local and
global changes in the field of psychiatric genetics.
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