The postgenomic condition : ethics, justice, and knowledge after the genome / Jenny Reardon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reardon, Jenny, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human genome--Research--United States--History.

Human genome.

Genomics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Genomics.

Genomics--Social aspects.

Sociogenomics.

Human genome--Research.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Summary:

While the sequencing of the human genome was a landmark achievement, the availability and manipulation of such a vast amount of data about our species has inevitably led to questions that are increasingly fundamental and urgent: now that information about human bodies can be transformed into a natural resource, how will and should we interpret and use it? With The Postgenomic Condition, Jenny Reardon draws on more than a decade of research in molecular biology labs, commercial startups, governmental agencies and civic spaces to examine the extensive efforts after the completion of the Human Genome Project to transform genomics from high tech informatics practiced by a few well-financed scientists and engineers to meaningful knowledge beneficial to all people. Through her in-depth profiles of genomic initiatives around the world, we see hopes to forge public knowledge and goods from blood and DNA meet the reality of limited resources and conflicting values. building the argument around the limits of liberal concepts of openness, information, inclusion, privacy, property and the public concepts that proved salient at different points in the unfolding story of efforts to make sense of human genomes Reardon shows how genomics challenges us to move beyond existing liberal frameworks to ask deeper questions of knowledge and justice.

Contents:

The postgenomic condition: an introduction

The information of life or the life of information?

Inclusion: can genomics be antiracist?

Who represents the human genome? What is the human genome?

Genomics for the people or the rise of the machines?

Genomics for the 98 percent?

The genomic open 2.0: the public v. the public

Life on Third: knowledge and justice after the genome

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226344553

022634455X

9780226510453

022651045X

OCLC:

975397891