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9789811577277: De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes (Health, Technology and Society)
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ISBN 10: 9811577277 ISBN 13: 9789811577277
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Are you your genes? De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes explores this perplexing question, showing how different forms of knowledge must be contextualized to become meaningful. It is generally assumed that the genomic sequence adds up to the identity-forming material life is made of. Yet identity cannot itself adopt the form of a sequence. As the authors in this volume show, the genome must be ‘de-sequenced’ by human language to render it interpretable and meaningful in a social context. The book unpacks this type of ‘sequence-speech’ in engaging detail, adopting a personal, social, cultural, and bio-political approach to examine the transformation of human identity and reflexivity in the era of genetic citizenship.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Dana Mahr is senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research centers on how we make sense out of science, technology, and medicine from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

Martina von Arx, M.A. is a PhD candidate at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She explores how health professionals and patients experience digital technologies as part of the current developments of personalized health in Switzerland.

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Are you your genes? De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes explores this perplexing question, showing how different forms of knowledge must be contextualized to become meaningful. It is generally assumed that the genomic sequence adds up to the identity-forming material life is made of. Yet identity cannot itself adopt the form of a sequence. As the authors in this volume show, the genome must be ‘de-sequenced’ by human language to render it interpretable and meaningful in a social context. The book unpacks this type of ‘sequence-speech’ in engaging detail, adopting a personal, social, cultural, and bio-political approach to examine the transformation of human identity and reflexivity in the era of genetic citizenship.

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Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9811577277
ISBN 13 
9789811577277
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
198
Herausgeber
Mahr Dana, Von Arx Martina
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