Genetics and Society
About the Book Series
The books in this series, all based on original research, explore the social, economic and ethical consequences of the new genetic sciences. The series is based in the Cesagene, one of the centres forming the ESRC’s Genomics Network (EGN), the largest UK investment in social-science research on the implications of these innovations. With a mix of research monographs, edited collections, textbooks and a major new handbook, the series is a valuable contribution to the social analysis of developing and emergent bio-technologies.
Barcoding Nature: Shifting Cultures of Taxonomy in an Age of Biodiversity Loss
1st Edition
By Claire Waterton, Rebecca Ellis, Brian Wynne
October 14, 2024
DNA Barcoding has been promoted since 2003 as a new, fast, digital genomics-based means of identifying natural species based on the idea that a small standard fragment of any organism’s genome (a so-called ‘micro-genome’) can faithfully identify and help to classify every species on the planet. The...
Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO's Bioethics Programme
1st Edition
By Adèle Langlois
October 14, 2024
A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but ...
The Matrix of Stem Cell Research: An Approach to Rethinking Science in Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine Hauskeller, Arne Manzeschke, Anja Pichl
March 31, 2021
Stem cell research has been a problematic endeavour. For the past twenty years it has attracted moral controversies in both the public and the professional sphere. The research involves not only laboratories, clinics and people, but ethics, industries, jurisprudence, and markets. Today it ...
Psychiatric Genetics: From Hereditary Madness to Big Biology
1st Edition
By Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Andrew Bartlett, Jamie Lewis
September 30, 2020
Psychiatric genetics has become ‘Big Biology’. This may come as a surprising development to those familiar with its controversial history. From eugenic origins and contentious twin studies to a global network of laboratories employing high-throughput genetic and genomic technologies, biological ...
Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices: Transnational Perspectives in the Time of BRCA
1st Edition
Edited
By Sahra Gibbon, Galen Joseph, Jessica Mozersky, Andrea zur Nieden, Sonja Palfner
December 12, 2019
The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical programmes for those at high risk of developing breast cancer in the UK, US and Europe. The book provides a...
Knowing New Biotechnologies: Social Aspects of Technological Convergence
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthias Wienroth, Eugénia Rodrigues
December 12, 2019
The areas of personal genomics and citizen science draw on – and bring together – different cultures of producing and managing knowledge and meaning. They also cross local and global boundaries, are subjects and objects of transformation and mobility of research practices, evaluation and ...
Science and Democracy: Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Hilgartner, Clark Miller, Rob Hagendijk
December 12, 2019
In the life sciences and beyond, new developments in science and technology and the creation of new social orders go hand in hand. In short, science and society are simultaneously and reciprocally coproduced and changed. Scientific research not only produces new knowledge and technological systems ...
CyberGenetics: Health genetics and new media
1st Edition
By Anna Harris, Susan Kelly, Sally Wyatt
August 14, 2018
Online genetic testing services are increasingly being offered to consumers who are becoming exposed to, and knowledgeable about, new kinds of genetic technologies, as the launch of a 23andme genetic testing product in the UK testifies. Genetic research breakthroughs, cheek swabbing forensic ...
Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology: Contending Coalitions, Trade Liberalisation and Standard Setting
1st Edition
By Joseph Murphy, Les Levidow
February 29, 2016
Delays in approving genetically modified crops and foods in the European Union have led to a high profile trade conflict with the United States. This book analyses the EU-US conflict and uses it as a case study to explore the governance of new technologies. The transatlantic conflict over GM crops...
The Gene, the Clinic, and the Family: Diagnosing Dysmorphology, Reviving Medical Dominance
1st Edition
By Joanna Latimer
February 27, 2015
While some theorists argue that medicine is caught in a relentless process of ‘geneticization’ and others offer a thesis of biomedicalization, there is still little research that explores how these effects are accomplished in practice. Joanna Latimer, whose groundbreaking ethnography on acute ...
Gender and Genetics: Sociology of the Prenatal
1st Edition
By Kate Reed
November 10, 2014
Prenatal screening for genetic disorders is becoming an increasingly widespread phenomenon across the globe. While studies have highlighted the importance of women’s experiences of such screening, little is known about men’s roles and direct involvement in this process. With a focus on the ...
Risky Genes: Genetics, Breast Cancer and Jewish Identity
1st Edition
By Jessica Mozersky
November 10, 2014
Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. So what does it mean to be told you have an increased risk of genetic breast cancer because you are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin? In a time of ever-increasing ...