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Risks in the making : travels in life insurance and genetics / Ine van Hoyweghen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoyweghen, Ine van.
- Series:
- Care & welfare.
- Care & welfare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical genetics--Social aspects.
- Medical genetics.
- Medical genetics--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Discrimination in insurance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Opens up an important examination of risk selection procedures in insurance
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Ch.1: Risky Business: The Collision of Genetics and Life Insurance; Ch.2: ""Genetics Is Not The Issue"": Insurers on Genetics and Life Insurance; Ch.3: Risky Bodies Stage I: Constituting the Underwriting Practice; Ch.4: Risky Bodies Stage II: Governing by Numbers; Ch.5: Risky Bodies Stage III: The Art of Underwriting; Ch.6: Risky Bodies Future Stage? Risk Carriers and Risk Takers; Ch.7: Towards Experimental Learning; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-191) and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-3.0 Unported CC BY-NC 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786611979119
- 9789048503421
- 9048503426
- 9781281979117
- 1281979112
- 9781429472685
- 1429472685
- OCLC:
- 437106853
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.5117/9789053569276
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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