Provides a comparative transnational perspective on global social and cultural developments on BRCA genetics including perspectives from within Europe (UK, Germany, France), the ‘global south’ (India, Brazil) and also the US, Canada and Australia Includes a range of cross disciplinary perspectives, theoretical and methodological approaches from across a diverse field of disciplines including, STS, Sociology, Bioethics, Political Science, Anthropology, History The introductory section provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of play regarding social science engagement with the field of BRCA genetics and an updated contemporary perspective on current developments in this field of science and technology Foreword, Commentaries and Afterword are from leading academics in the field providing a critical perspective on themes raised in the book as a whole. This includes commentaries from Rayna Rapp, Nina Hallowell, Susanne Bauer and Martina Schlünder.
Edited by:
Sahra Gibbon (University College London UK),
Galen Joseph (University of California San Francisco,
USA),
Jessica Mozersky,
Andrea zur Nieden,
Sonja Palfner
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9780415824064
ISBN 10: 0415824060
Series: Genetics and Society
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 18 March 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Foreword by Rayna Rapp Introduction Section I: Practices of Population, Politics and History in the Production of BRCA 1. The Presence of the Past: BRCA ‘Ashkenazi Mutations’ and Transnational Differences in Categories of ‘Race’ and ‘Ethnicity’: The German Case 2. Mapping Jewish Identities: Migratory Histories and the Transnational Re-Framing of the ‘Ashkenazi BRCA Mutations’ in the UK and Brazil 3. Genetics to the People: BRCA as Public Health and the Dissemination of Cancer Risk Knowledge Middleword I: Historicizing Biomedicine – Toward a History of the Present of BRCA Section II: Risk, Personhood and Subjectivity 4. Situating Breast Cancer Risk in Urban India: Gender, Temporality and Social Change 5. Gender Trouble? Queering the Medical Normativity of BRCA Femininities 6. It Takes a Particular World to Produce and Enact BRCA Testing: The US had It, Italy had Another Middleword II: Pushing the Boundaries Section III: Shifting Terrains of BRCA Knowledge and Practices 7. ""Empowerment"" and the Rendering of Biocapital in Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genomics 8. The BRCA Patent Controversies: An International Review of Patent Disputes 9. From BRCA to BRCAness: Tales of translational research 10. BRCA Interrupted: Reproductive Technologies and the Reiteration-Reformulation of Cancer Legacies. Afterword: Studying BRCA performativity. Re-Calibrations by and of the Social Sciences"
Sahra Gibbon is a Lecturer in the Anthropology Department at University College London, UK. Galen Joseph is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Jessica Mozersky is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Andrea zur Nieden is a sociologist and a Research Assistant at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. Sonja Palfner is a social scientist contributing to the field of science and technology studies.
