Karen-Sue Taussig

Ordinary Genomes

Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"What might suspicions of religious inbreeding; Herman the Bull; anxiety about continued influence of Nazi eugenics; and the quest to be normal all have in common? These themes are skilfully woven together in Karen-Sue Taussig's thoughtful and provocative "Ordinary Genomes" which makes a very important case for the specificity of Dutch genetic perceptions and practices. Her account convinces us to rethink the meaning of 'Western' in light of Taussig's excellent ethnographic account of Dutch praxis--in and out of genetic medicine--as we imagine the many ways it teaches us to think about normality. This is an important book. It provides a classic anthropological argument for the importance of thinking comparatively, as we approach 21st century genomic medicine."--Rayna Rapp, author of "Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345343
• ISBN-10: 082234534X
• Artikelnr.: 26552872

Autorenporträt

Karen-Sue Taussig is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Science, Subjectivity, and Citizenship 1
1. "God Made the World and the Dutch Made Holland" 17
2. Genetics and the Organization of Genetic Practice in the Netherlands 57
3. The Social and Clinical Production of Ordinariness 85
4. Backward and Beautiful: Calvinism, Chromosomes, and the Production of
Genetic Knowledge 135
5. Bovine Abominations: Contesting Genetic Technologies 159
Epilogue. Ordinary Genomes in a Globalizing World 189
Notes 201
Bibliography 217
Index 235