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Biosocialities, genetics and the social sciences : making biologies and identities / edited by Sahra Gibbon and Carlos Novas.
| Other author | Gibbon, Sahra. |
| Other author | Novas, Carlos. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. |
| Description | ix, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : biosocialities, genetics and the social sciences / Sahra Gibbon and Carlos Novas -- Charity, breast cancer activism and the iconic figure of the BRCA carrier / Sahra Gibbon -- Brains, pedigrees, and promises : lessons from the politics of autism genetics / Chloe Silverman -- Biosociality and susceptibility genes : a cautionary tale / Margaret Lock -- Biology, sociality and reproductive modernity in Ecuadorian in-vitro fertilization : the particulars of place / Elizabeth F.S. Roberts -- Biosociality and biocrossings : encounters with assisted conception and embryonic stem cells in India / Aditya Bharadwaj -- Synecdochic ricochets : biosocialities in a Jerusalem IVF clinic / Michal Nahman -- Patients, profits and values : myozyme as an exemplar of biosociality / Carlos Novas -- Biocapital as an emergent form of life : speculations on the figure of the experimental subject / Kaushik Sunder Rajan -- Afterword : concept work / Paul Rabinow. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2007001043 |
| ISBN | 9780415401371 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0415401372 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780415401388 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0415401380 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780203945940 (ebk.) |
| ISBN | 0203945948 (ebk.) |