TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conrad, Peter
TI  - Sociological Perspectives on the New Genetics
SN  - 0631215999   
U1  - H28.1 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Blackwell Publishers
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; I: Structure and Production of Genetic Knowledge  1. Genes as drugs: the social shaping of gene therapy and the reconstruction of genetic disease   Paul Martin  2. Experts as `storytellers` in reproductive genetics: exploring key issues     Elizabeth Ettorre  3. The human drama of genetics: `hard` and `soft` media representations of inherited breast cancer	  Lesley Henderson and Jenny Kitzinger  II: The Social Meanings of Genetics  4. Waiting for the cure: mapping the social relations of human gene therapy research   Alan Stockdale  5. Doing the right thing: genetic risk and responsibility   Nina Hallowell  6. There`s this thing in our family: Predictive testing and the construction of risk for Huntington Disease   Susan Cox and William McKellin  III: The Social Impact and Implications of Genetics  7. Defining the `social`: towards an understanding of scientific and  medical discourses on the social aspects of the new human genetics	  Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Anne Kerr  8. Losing the plot? Medical and activist discourses of the contemporary genetics and disability	  Tom Shakespeare  9. DNA identification and surveillance creep	  Dorothy Nelkin and Lori Andrews
ER  -