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Experiencing the New Genetics : Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier / / Kaja Finkler



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Autore: Finkler Kaja Visualizza persona
Titolo: Experiencing the New Genetics : Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier / / Kaja Finkler Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
Disciplina: 306.4/61
Soggetto topico: SOCIAL SCIENCE
Anthropology / General
Families - Social aspects - United States
Heredity, Human - Social aspects
Kinship
Medical genetics
Families
Anthropology
Biomedical Research
Biology
Genotype
Psychology, Social
Medicine
Disease Susceptibility
Sociology
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities
Behavioral Sciences
Diseases
Genetic Phenomena
Disease Attributes
Social Sciences
Health Occupations
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Research
Biological Science Disciplines
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Disciplines and Occupations
Psychiatry and Psychology
Science
Phenomena and Processes
Natural Science Disciplines
Pathologic Processes
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
Genetics, Medical
Adoption
Genetic Determinism
Family
Genetics, Behavioral
Genetic Research
Anthropology, Cultural
Genetics
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Social & Cultural Anthropology
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Setting the Stage: Kinship and Genetics -- Chapter 2. The Role of Kinship in Human Life -- Chapter 3. Family and Kinship in American Society -- Chapter 4. Concepts of Heredity in Western Society -- Part II. Setting Out People's Experience -- Chapter 5. People with a Genetic History I -- Chapter 6. People with a Genetic History II -- Chapter 7. People Without a Medical History -- Part III. Implications -- Chapter 8. The Ideology of Genetic Inheritance in Contemporary Life -- Chapter 9. A Multidimensional Critique of Genetic Determinism -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: Over the past several decades there has been an explosion of interest in genetics and genetic inheritance within both the research community and the mass media. The science of genetics now forecasts great advances in alleviating disease and prolonging human life, placing the family and kin group under the spotlight.In Experiencing the New Genetics, Kaja Finkler argues that the often uncritical presentation of research on genetic inheritance as well as the attitudes of some in the biomedical establishment contribute to a "genetic essentialism," a new genetic determinism, and the medicalization of kinship in American society. She explores some of the social and cultural consequences of this phenomenon. Finkler discovers that the new genetics can turn a healthy person into a perpetual patient, complicate the redefinition of the family that has been occurring in American society for the past few decades, and lead to the abdication of responsibility for addressing the problem of unhealthy environmental conditions. Experiencing the New Genetics will assist scholars and general readers alike in making sense of this timely and multifaceted issue.
Titolo autorizzato: Experiencing the New Genetics  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-21107-6
9786613211071
0-8122-0060-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457650103321
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