De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes

By Dana Mahr

Book Overview

1. Introduction.- Part I Science and Medicine.- 2. Personalised Medicine: Problems of translation into the human domain.- 3. Contemporary Future Parents: From tentative pregnancy and moral pioneers to educated moral gamblers.- Part II Philosophy of Biology.- 4. Developmental narratives.- 5. Epigenetics, responsiveness and embodiment.- 6. Space and time of developmental narratives.- Part III Societal Contexts.- 7. Data mining in systems medicine and the project of solidarity - the interface of genomics and society revisited.- 8. Experimenting with solidarity in biomedicine: from practice to prin-ciple?.- 9. The moral making of data rich personalised medicine.- Part IV Families.- 10. An ordering of letters: my own personal genome.- 11. Illness in the world of the genome.- 12. How personal is the genome? The shadow of genetic predictions.- Part V Individual Experiences.- 13. Lived genome phenomenology. Exploring the genetics of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases.- 14. Existential storytelling in a genomic world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811577307
• ISBN13: 9789811577307
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"