The Gene, the Clinic, and the Family: Diagnosing Dysmorphology, Reviving Medical Dominance

by Joanna Latimer

Book Overview

While some theorists argue that medicine is caught in a relentless process of 'geneticization' and others offer a thesis of biomedicalization, there is still little research that explores how these effects are accomplished in practice. Joanna Latimer, whose groundbreaking ethnography on acute medicine gave us the social science classic The Conduct of Care, moves her focus from the bedside to the clinic in this in-depth study of genetic medicine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138858811
• ISBN13: 9781138858817
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"