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Ordinary genomes : science, citizenship, and genetic identities / Karen-Sue Taussig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taussig, Karen-Sue, 1962-
- Series:
- Experimental futures.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genetics--Social aspects--Netherlands.
- Genetics.
- Group identity--Netherlands.
- Group identity.
- National characteristics, Dutch.
- Genetic counseling--Netherlands.
- Genetic counseling.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the mutually constructive relationship between increasing scientific knowledge of human genetics and cultural identity through a case study of the development and reception of genomics in the Netherlands.
- Contents:
- Introduction : science, subjectivity, and citizenship
- "God made the world and the Dutch made Holland"
- Genetics and the organization of genetic practice in the Netherlands
- The social and clinical production of ordinariness -
- Backward and beautiful : Calvinism, chromosomes, and the production of genetic knowledge
- Bovine abominations: contesting genetic technologies
- Epilogue : ordinary genomes in a globalizing world.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064981
- 9781283064989
- 1283064987
- 9780822391036
- 0822391031
- OCLC:
- 456467945
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