Being at genetic risk : toward a rhetoric of care / / Kelly Pender
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| Autore: |
Pender Kelly <1974->
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| Titolo: |
Being at genetic risk : toward a rhetoric of care / / Kelly Pender
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| Pubblicazione: | University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2018] |
| ©2018 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 540.112 |
| Soggetto topico: | Alchemy |
| Astrology | |
| Magic | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | BRCA mutations |
| Rhetoric of care | |
| Rhetoric of choice | |
| enactment | |
| genetic risk | |
| praxiography | |
| rhetorical invention | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Being at genetic risk |
| ISBN: | 0-271-08302-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910793728303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Magic in history.