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Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society
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ABSTRACT
The Handbook provides an essential resource at the interface of Genomics, Health and Society, and forms a crucial research tool for both new students and established scholars across biomedicine and social sciences. Building from and extending the first Routledge Handbook of Genetics and Society, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to pivotal themes within the field, an overview of the current state of the art knowledge on genomics, science and society, and an outline of emerging areas of research.
Key themes addressed include the way genomic based DNA technologies have become incorporated into diverse arenas of clinical practice and research whilst also extending beyond the clinic; the role of genomics in contemporary ‘bioeconomies’; how challenges in the governance of medical genomics can both reconfigure and stabilise regulatory processes and jurisdictional boundaries; how questions of diversity and justice are situated across different national and transnational terrains of genomic research; and how genomics informs – and is shaped by – developments in fields such as epigenetics, synthetic biology, stem cell, microbial and animal model research.
Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315451695-13
Chapter 28 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315451695-28
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|8 pages
Introduction to Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society
part I|46 pages
Genomics and DNA-based technologies in the clinic and beyond
chapter 5|7 pages
Mainstreaming genomics and personal genetic testing
chapter 6|8 pages
Bringing genetics into the clinic: the evolution of genetic testing and counselling
chapter 7|8 pages
From quality control to informed choice: understanding “good births” and prenatal genetic testing in contemporary urban China
part II|62 pages
Genomic technologies in the bioeconomy
chapter 12|9 pages
Neoliberalism on drugs
chapter 13|9 pages
The value of the imagined biological in policy and society
part III|62 pages
Governance of medical genomics
chapter 16|10 pages
The Human Genome Project and the legacy of its ethics programs
chapter 18|9 pages
Genomic platforms and clinical research
chapter 21|10 pages
In CRISPR’s world: genome editing and the politics of global science
part IV|59 pages
Diversity and justice
chapter 24|8 pages
Eugenics and enhancement in contemporary genomics
chapter 25|9 pages
Genomics and insurance
chapter 26|9 pages
Power asymmetries, participation, and the idea of personalised medicine
part V|70 pages
Crossing boundaries