Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (262 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780822391036
Series Statement:
Experimental Futures : Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1170629
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Science, Subjectivity, and Citizenship -- 1. "God Made the World and the Dutch Made Holland -- 2. Genetics and the Organization of Genetic Practice in the Netherlands -- 3. The Social and Clinical Production of Ordinariness -- 4. Backward and Beautiful: Calvinism, Chromosomes, and the Production of Genetic Knowledge -- 5. Bovine Abominations: Contesting Genetic Technologies -- Epilogue: Ordinary Genomes in a Globalizing World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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