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100 _aConrad, Peter
245 _aSociological Perspectives on the New Genetics
260 _aOxford
_bBlackwell Publishers
_c1999
300 _a219p
440 0 _aSociology of Health and Illness Monograph Series;
_v199900ENGGPS5
500 _aincludes index and biblioraphy
505 2 _aI: 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
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