ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies four cross-cutting themes in the Handbook that reveal the porous and fluid boundaries of topics and themes related to Genomics, Health and Society. It illuminates the global terrain on which genomic research, technologies and medical interventions are unfolding and the way that this process constitutes dense and complex intersections between the so-called global 'north' and 'south'. The chapter discusses that the frequency with which stability and instability now enter into conversations of post-genomic research. It explains the increasing prominence of imaginaries of genomics and post-genomics as a source of innovation and value. The chapter explores how genomic knowledge, technologies, and medicine have become central to certain fields of clinical practice, whilst also exceeding and extending beyond the confines of the clinic. It focuses on one area of medical intervention, reproductive genetics, which has been profoundly changed by developments in genomics. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.
