Being at genetic risk : toward a rhetoric of care / / Kelly Pender

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793728303321
• Autore: Pender Kelly <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 0-271-08302-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages)
• Collana: Magic in history
• Disciplina: 540.112
• Soggetti: Alchemy; Astrology; Magic
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Following Mol’s Lead: From Diabetes to BRCA Risk -- 2 From Ideology to Governmentality: A Constructivist View of Genetic Risk -- 3 Making Risk Real: A Praxiographic Inquiry into Being BRCA+ -- 4 Toward a Rhetoric of Care for the At Risk -- Conclusion: Invention in RSTM: Another Moderate Response to the Two-World Problem -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "An English translation, with accompanying introduction, commentary, and notes, of the medieval treatise on astrological magic known as Picatrix, a guide for constructing magical talismans, mixing magical compounds, summoning planetary spirits, and determining astrological conditions"--Provided by publisher.