Joanna Latimer

The Gene, the Clinic, and the Family

Diagnosing Dysmorphology, Reviving Medical Dominance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book moves the focus from the bedside to the clinic in this in-depth study of genetic medicine. Against current thinking that proselytises the rise of laboratory science, Professor Latimer shows how the genetic clinic is at the heart of the revolution in the new genetics. Tracing how work on the abnormal in an embryonic genetic science, dysmorphology, is changing our thinking about the normal, The Gene, the Clinic, and the Family charts new understandings about family, procreation and choice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780415699280
• ISBN-10: 0415699282
• Artikelnr.: 33870382

Autorenporträt

Joanna Latimer is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, and Professor in the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics. She has been researching medical knowledge and practice ethnographically for 30 years. Professor Latimer is editor of Sociology of Health and Illness, a member of the board of The Sociological Review, and chair of the Cardiff Ageing, Science and Older People Network.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Part I: Introduction and Background 1. Introduction 2. The Clinic
as the Site of Science Part II: The Gene and Medicine 3. Medicalizing
Science 4. The 'Translation' of Growth and Form 5. Shaping the Science of
Growth and Form Part III: Visualizing the Clinic 6. Creating Clinical
Pictures 7. Rebirthing the Clinic 8. Dysmorphology's portraits Part IV: The
Family and Identities 9. Genes, Bodies, Persons 10. 'The Family' and
Medicine 11. Transforming Family Part V: Conclusions 12. Summary and
Discussion