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Breast cancer gene research and medical practices : transnational perspectives in the time of BRCA / / edited by Sahra Gibbon. [et al.]
| Breast cancer gene research and medical practices : transnational perspectives in the time of BRCA / / edited by Sahra Gibbon. [et al.] |
| Autore | Gibbon Sahra |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Taylor & Francis, 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina |
616.99/449
616.99449 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | GibbonSahra |
| Collana | Genetics and Society |
| Soggetto topico |
Breast - Cancer - Genetic aspects
BRCA genes Tumor markers |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Society and culture: general
Social and cultural anthropology Sociology |
| ISBN |
1-135-92552-6
0-203-38551-9 1-135-92545-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; SECTION I Practices of population, politics and history in the production of BRCA; 1 The presence of the past: 'Ashkenazi BRCA mutations' and transnational differences in categories of 'race' and 'ethnicity': the German case; 2 Mapping Jewish identities: migratory histories and the transnational re-framing of the 'Ashkenazi BRCA mutations' in the UK and Brazil; 3 Genetics to the people: BRCA as public health and the dissemination of cancer risk knowledge
Middleword I: Historicizing biomedicine: toward a history of the present of BRCASECTION II Risk, personhood and subjectivity; 4 Situating breast cancer risk in urban India: gender, temporality and social change; 5 Gender trouble? Queering the medical normativity of BRCA femininities; 6 It takes a particular world to produce and enact BRCA testing: the US had it, Italy had another; Middleword II: Pushing the boundaries; SECTION III Shifting terrains of BRCA knowledge and practices; 7 'Empowerment' and the rendering of biocapital in direct-to-consumer personal genomics 8 The BRCA patent controversies: an international review of patent disputes9 From BRCA to BRCAness: tales of translational research; 10 Ethical analysis of PGD for BRCA: attending to more than risks and benefits; Afterword: Studying BRCA performativity: re-calibrations by and of the social sciences; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910831885003321 |
Gibbon Sahra
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| Taylor & Francis, 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Genetic risk factors [[electronic resource]]
| Genetic risk factors [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Bethesda, Md.] : , : National Institutes of Health, , [between 2000 and 2009?] |
| Soggetto topico |
Breast - Cancer - Genetic aspects
BRCA genes |
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Documentary films.
Streaming videos. |
| Formato | Videoregistrazioni  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910699197103321 |
| [Bethesda, Md.] : , : National Institutes of Health, , [between 2000 and 2009?] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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