New Genetics, New Identities - Grand Format

Edition en anglais

Paul Atkinson

,

Peter Glasner

,

Helen Greenslade

Liliana Acero

(Auteur)

,

Collectif

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Résumé

New genetics 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 investigations is potentially transformed by the possibilities of genetics investigations and modifications (including the highly controversial terrains of reproductive technologies and the use of human embryos in biomedical research).

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    01/01/2017
  • Editeur
  • Collection
    Genetics and Society
  • ISBN
    978-1-138-01046-8
  • EAN
    9781138010468
  • Format
    Grand Format
  • Présentation
    Broché
  • Nb. de pages
    196 pages
  • Poids
    0.33 Kg
  • Dimensions
    13,6 cm × 23,5 cm × 1,2 cm

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L'éditeur en parle

The chapters in this volume, drawn from an international array of authors, address these isssues 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 ressources 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.

À propos des auteurs

Paul Atkinson is Distinguished Research Professor in Sociology at Cardiff University, where he is Associate Director of the ESRC Centre for Economics and Social Aspects of Genomics. He has published extensively on the sociology of medical knowledge and qualitative research methods. He is Co-editor of the journal Qualitative Research. He is an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences. Peter Glasner is Professorial Fellow in the Economic and Social Research and Social Aspects of Genomics at Cardiff University.
He is Co-editor of the journals New Genetics and Society and 21st Century Society. He has a longstanding research interest in genetics, innovation and science policy. He is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. Helen Greenslade is Editorial Assistant for CESAGen's Genetics and Society Book Series. She graduated from Cardiff University with a degree in italien and Spanish, and holds an MA in European-Latin American Relations from the University of Bradford.

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