Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences: Making Biologies and Identities by Gibbon, Sahra

Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences: Making Biologies and Identities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415401388)

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Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences: Making Biologies and Identities by Gibbon, Sahra

Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences: Making Biologies and Identities

$59.99
Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences: Making Biologies and Identities by Gibbon, Sahra

Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences: Making Biologies and Identities

$59.99
Format: Paperback
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This pioneering collection uses Paul Rabinow's concept of biosociality to chart the shifts in social relations and in ideas about nature, biology and identity brought about by developments in biomedicine.



Author: Sahra Gibbon
ISBN-10: 0415401380
ISBN-13: 9780415401388
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2007
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
By Sahra Gibbon
By Sahra Gibbon
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Sahra Gibbon is currently undertaking a Wellcome Trust fellowship at University College London. Her research, which is focused on the creation of large scale genetic resources such as genetic databases, looks at how different kinds of publics are being recruited into genetic research in the UK and Cuba.

Carlos Novas is a Wellcome Trust funded Postdoctoral Fellow at the BIOS Centre, London School of Economics. His is currently working on a 3 year project titled: "The Political Economy of Hope: Private Enterprise, Patients' Groups and the Production of Values in the Contemporary Life Sciences. This project examines how advances in the life sciences have fostered the hope that cures or treatments for many hereditary illnesses will be developed in the near future.

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