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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Karen-Sue TaussigPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.526kg ISBN: 9780822345169ISBN 10: 0822345161 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 23 September 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgments Introduction: Science, Subjectivity, and Citizenship; 1. God Made the World and the Dutch Made Holland ; 2. Genetics and the Organization of Genetic Practice in the Netherlands; 3. The Social and Clinical Production of Ordinariness; 4. Backward and Beautiful: Calvinism, Chromosomes, and the Production of Genetic Knowledge; 5. Bovine Abominations: Contesting Genetic Technologies; Epilogue: Ordinary Genomes in a Globalizing World Notes; Bibliography; IndexReviewsOrdinary Genomes is a timely, provocative, compelling account of how research in the genome sciences at once challenges the norms of national culture and is made meaningful through those norms. Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative In this important book Karen-Sue Taussig provides an excellent ethnographic account of the perceptions and practice of genetics in the Netherlands, and a classic anthropological argument for thinking comparatively as we approach twenty-first-century genomic medicine. --Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America Ordinary Genomes is a thoughtful, nuanced book. Through Karen-Sue Taussig's close and careful readings of geneticists at work in the multiple spaces of the laboratory, the field, and the clinic, we get an all-too-rare ethnographic look at genetics in practice. Here we have fleshed out, complex figures who negotiate diagnoses, reflect on their own practices and knowledge, and allow us to enter a professional life that is probably far different than we might have imagined. I cannot stress enough what an important achievement this is. --Michael Fortun, author of Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation Author InformationKaren-Sue Taussig is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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