ISBN:
9780822345169
,
9780822345343
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 247 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
Experimental futures
Series Statement:
technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
DDC:
599.93/5
Keywords:
Genetics Social aspects
;
Group identity
;
National characteristics, Dutch
;
Genetic counseling
;
Niederlande
;
Gruppenidentität
;
Humangenetik
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : science, subjectivity, and citizenship -- "God made the world and the Dutch made Holland" -- Genetics and the organization of genetic practice in the Netherlands -- The social and clinical production of ordinariness - -- Backward and beautiful : Calvinism, chromosomes, and the production of genetic knowledge -- Bovine abominations: contesting genetic technologies -- Epilogue : ordinary genomes in a globalizing world.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
