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Genetics and society : a sociology of disease /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kerr, Anne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2004]
Subjects:
Genetics, Medical.
Sociology.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Why this book now?
  • Themes and chapters
  • Past, present and future
  • Patients, professionals and publics
  • Knowledge, practice and things
  • Past
  • Surveillance, coercion and voluntarism
  • Prevention
  • Reductionism
  • Commerce, governance and expertise
  • Contemporary debate about eugenics
  • Discovery
  • The discovery discourse
  • Knowledge, practice and things
  • Commercialization
  • Governance
  • Expert relations
  • Defining disease
  • Reproduction
  • Reproductive choices
  • Down's syndrome screening in the United Kingdom
  • Patients
  • The psychosocial approach
  • Biography narratives
  • Risk and responsibility
  • Biobanks
  • Informed consent
  • privacy and confidentiality
  • commercialization and governance
  • Publics
  • Public opinion
  • Lay knowledge
  • Active citizenship
  • Constructing citizens and publics
  • Futures
  • Policy-speak
  • Public bioethics
  • Biomedicine
  • Mass media
  • Conclusion
  • Past, present and future
  • Patients, professionals and publics
  • Knowledge, practice and things
  • Researching genetics and society