Genetics as Social Practice: Transdisciplinary Views on Science and Culture

This volume brings together contributions exploring the mutual relationships between genetics, markets, societies, and identities in genetics and genomics. It draws upon the recent transdisciplinary debate on how socio-cultural factors influence understandings of 'genetics2.0' and shows how individual and collective identities are challenged or reinforced by cultural meanings and practices of genetics. This book will become a standard reference for everyone seeking to make sense of the controversies and shifts in the field of genetics in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

Author: Barbara Prainsack,Silke Schicktanz,Gabriele Werner-Felmayer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/30/2017
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781138053601

About the Author

Barbara Prainsack is Reader in Sociology in the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King's College London, UK.

Silke Schicktanz is Professor of Culture and Ethics of Biomedicine at the University Medical Centre Göttingen, Germany.

Gabriele Werner-Felmayer is University Professor of Medical Biochemistry at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.