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The Human Genome Diversity Project
An Ethnography of Scientific Practice
Häftad, 2005
764 kr
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The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) was launched in 1991 by a group of population geneticists whose aim was to map genetic diversity in hundreds of human populations by tracing the similarities and differences between them. It quickly became controversial and was accused of racism and 'bad …
Narrating the New Predictive Genetics
Ethics, Ethnography and Science
Häftad, 2005
569 kr
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This book explores the way changes in technology have altered the relationship between ethics and medicine. For some inherited diseases, new genetic testing technologies may provide much more accurate diagnostic and predictive information which raises important questions about consent, …
Pharmaceutical Reason
Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry
Häftad, 2006
699 kr
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Andrew Lakoff argues that a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon mental disorder is coming to reshape not only the field of psychiatry, but also our very notions of self. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric practice in Argentina (a country which boasts the …
The Politics of Personalised Medicine
Pharmacogenetics in the Clinic
Häftad, 2004
797 kr
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Pharmacogenetics, the use of genetic testing to prescribe and develop drugs, has been hailed as a revolutionary development for the pharmaceutical industry and modern medicine. Supporters of 'personalised medicine' claim the result will be safer, cheaper, more effective drugs, and their arguments …
Messengers of Sex
Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Since the early twentieth century, hormones have commonly been understood as 'messengers of sex'. They are seen as essential to the development and functioning of healthy reproductive male and female bodies; millions take them as medications in the treatment of fertility, infertility and ageing. …
The Human Genome Diversity Project
An Ethnography of Scientific Practice
Inbunden, 2005
1563 kr
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The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) was launched in 1991 by a group of population geneticists whose aim was to map genetic diversity in hundreds of human populations by tracing the similarities and differences between them. It quickly became controversial and was accused of racism and 'bad …
Narrating the New Predictive Genetics
Ethics, Ethnography and Science
Inbunden, 2005
1856 kr
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This book explores the way changes in technology have altered the relationship between ethics and medicine. For some inherited diseases, new genetic testing technologies may provide much more accurate diagnostic and predictive information which raises important questions about consent, …
Pharmaceutical Reason
Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry
Inbunden, 2006
1593 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Andrew Lakoff argues that a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon mental disorder is coming to reshape not only the field of psychiatry, but also our very notions of self. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric practice in Argentina (a country which boasts the …
The Politics of Personalised Medicine
Pharmacogenetics in the Clinic
Inbunden, 2004
1628 kr
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Pharmacogenetics, the use of genetic testing to prescribe and develop drugs, has been hailed as a revolutionary development for the pharmaceutical industry and modern medicine. Supporters of 'personalised medicine' claim the result will be safer, cheaper, more effective drugs, and their arguments …
Messengers of Sex
Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism
Inbunden, 2007
1547 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Since the early twentieth century, hormones have commonly been understood as 'messengers of sex'. They are seen as essential to the development and functioning of healthy reproductive male and female bodies; millions take them as medications in the treatment of fertility, infertility and ageing. …
