Description |
1 online resource (ix, 221 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
PART 1: CLINICAL BREAST CANCER GENETICS: PATIENTS, PRACTITIONERS AND PREDICTIVE MEDICINE -- The Enrolment of Patients: Visibility, Voice and Breast Cancer Activism -- Technologies of the Clinic; Tools, Tests and Explanatory Strategies -- Constructing Patienthood: The Care of Predictive Medicine and Female Nurturance -- Diviners and Pastoral Keepers: Working in Clinical Breast Cancer Genetics -- PART 2: A BREAST CANCER RESEARCH CHARITY: CHARITY, BREAST CANCER 'ACTIVISM' AND THE QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE -- The Alchemy of Loss and Hope: Fundraising as Memorialisation -- Between Geno-hype and Hope: Managing Science and Ethics in Post-genomic Spaces -- Lab Tours, Scientists and Making 'Monuments' for the Living |
Summary |
Risk assessment and genetic testing for breast cancer are at the vanguard of a rapidly expanding field of medicine, while the molecular genetics of breast cancer is a focus for a growing field of basic and applied scientific research. The last decade has also seen an exponential rise in health 'activism' around breast cancer. Using an ethnographic approach, Sahra Gibbon examines the relationship between these seemingly parallel developments. She draws on research in two contrasting social arenas - cancer genetic clinics and a breast cancer research charity - exploring the collective practices, networks and identities caught up in the translation of genetic knowledge from, to and between the laboratory and the wider world. She points to a powerful social form within the so called 'new ' genetics that aligns gender with the knowledge and technologies associated with breast cancer genes, whilst also showing how the circuits of connection between people and practices in different social arenas operate in complex and non-linear ways |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Breast -- Cancer -- Genetic aspects
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Breast -- Cancer -- Social aspects
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Genetic screening.
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Breast Neoplasms -- genetics
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Genetic Predisposition to Disease
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Genetic Testing
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Medical genetics.
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Oncology.
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Gender studies: women.
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Sociology: death & dying.
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Medical ethics & professional conduct.
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MEDICAL -- Oncology.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
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Health and Fitness.
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Genetic screening
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Breast -- Cancer -- Genetic aspects
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Breast -- Cancer -- Social aspects
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780230626553 |
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0230626556 |
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