Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge: Science and Citizenship in the Cultural Context of the 'new' Genetics by Gibbon, Sahra

Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge: Science and Citizenship in the Cultural Context of the 'new' Genetics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349547548)

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Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge: Science and Citizenship in the Cultural Context of the 'new' Genetics by Gibbon, Sahra

Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge: Science and Citizenship in the Cultural Context of the 'new' Genetics

$54.99
Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge: Science and Citizenship in the Cultural Context of the 'new' Genetics by Gibbon, Sahra

Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge: Science and Citizenship in the Cultural Context of the 'new' Genetics

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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The book examines the social and cultural context of new genetic knowledge associated with breast cancer. It looks at how this knowledge and technologies are used and received in two contrasting social arenas - cancer genetic clinics and a breast cancer research charity.

Author: Sahra Gibbon
ISBN-10: 1349547549
ISBN-13: 9781349547548
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 221
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d
By Sahra Gibbon
By Sahra Gibbon
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SAHRA GIBBON is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Anthropology Department at University College London, UK. She has a longstanding interest in the social and cultural dimensions of developments in genomics and the dynamic interface between differently constituted sciences and publics. She teaches on a range of courses focussing on the anthropology of medicine, science and technology

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