Genetics as Social Practice: Transdisciplinary Views on by Barbara Prainsack

By Barbara Prainsack

Contemporary vigorous debate in regards to the moral and regulatory dimensions of advancements in genetics has sidelined societal and cultural elements, which arguably are vital for a nuanced figuring out of the complexities of the subject. Regulatory and moral debates take advantage of taking heavily this 'third size' of tradition, which frequently determines the configurations and bounds of the distance in which clinical, moral and felony debate can occur. To fill this hole, this quantity brings jointly contributions exploring the mutual dating among genetics, markets, societies and identities in genetics and genomics. It attracts upon the new interdisciplinary debate on how socio-cultural components effect attitudes in the direction of using, and the assumption in, 'genetics2.0' and exhibits how person and collective identities are challenged via cultural meanings of genetics. This publication becomes the traditional reference for everybody looking to make feel of the controversies and shifts within the box of genetics within the moment decade of the twenty-first century.

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14 Genetics as Social Practice currency of the term, however, also calls for a critical perspective on how solidarity is ‘motivated’ in specific concrete cases, and whether the underlying conditions are fair, transparent, efficient etc. For instance, one might ask what kind of information, or even what kind of hope-and-hype-rhetorics, were used to motivate patients to contribute samples and data to biobanks. Solidarity can also help us in framing particular concerns regarding patenting and commercialisation of genes and biobanks, if these developments are likely to restrict and limit their use for vulnerable groups.

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