Editors:
- Explores contemporary impacts of genomic knowledge from different angles – such as the personalization of health, individual identity-work, new trends in policy making, and the social consequences of advancements in the medical sciences
- Establishes a discursive and interdisciplinary framework for those who (in their academic or professional fields) have to deal with the omnipresence and rising power of genetics in our society
- Offers a valuable cutting-edge resource for scholars and readers interested in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, STS and cognate disciplines within the social sciences and humanities more broadly
Part of the book series: Health, Technology and Society (HTE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Individual Experiences
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Front Matter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Section de Biologie, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dana Mahr, Martina von Arx
About the editors
Martina von Arx, M.A. is a PhD candidate at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She explores how health professionals and patients experience digital technologies as part of the current developments of personalized health in Switzerland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: De-Sequencing
Book Subtitle: Identity Work with Genes
Editors: Dana Mahr, Martina von Arx
Series Title: Health, Technology and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7728-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7727-7Published: 08 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7730-7Published: 09 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7728-4Published: 07 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-3386
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3378
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 181
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology, general, Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Genetics and Genomics