ISBN:
9781138022935
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (434 p)
Series Statement:
Genetics and Society
Series Statement:
Genetics and Society Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Knowing New Biotechnologies : Social Aspects of Technological Convergence
DDC:
512.24
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The areas of personal genomics and citizen science draw on - and bring together - different cultures of producing and managing knowledge and meaning. They also cross local and global boundaries, are subjects and objects of transformation and mobility of research practices, evaluation and multi-stakeholder groups. Thirdly, they draw on logics of 'convergence': new links between, and new kinds of, stakeholders, spaces, knowledge, practices, challenges and opportunities. This themed collection of essays from nationally and internationally leading scholars and commentators advances and widens curr
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgement; Part I: Introduction; 1. An introduction to social convergences; Introduction; Understanding social convergences; Book overview; References; 2. Distinguishing the umbrella promise of Converging Technology from the dynamics of Technology Convergence; Introduction; Converging Technologies and NBIC as policy-level visions; Technology convergence in new fields of research and innovation; Technology convergence in research and product development; Concluding remarks; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
ReferencesPart II: Dynamics and logics; 3. Why so many promises? The economy of scientific promises and its ambivalences; Introduction; Hype/disillusionment patterns; Contemporary features of scientific promises; The economy of promises and the regime of research; Convergence: matters of definition, matters of strategies; Nanotechnology or 'scientific promises as a literary genre'; Discussion; Notes; References; 4. Logics of convergence in NBIC and personal genomics; Introduction; 'Weak' and 'strong' analytical concepts of convergence; Promise, uncertainty and affect
Description / Table of Contents:
Convergence of a third kind: personal genomicsConclusion; References; 5. The convergence of direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies and biobanking activities: the example of 23andMe; Introduction; Direct-to-consumer genetic testing; DTC GT companies as biobanks and their research activities; Discussion and conclusion; Acknowledgements; Note; References; Part III: Governance; 6. The messiness of convergence: remarks on the roles of two visions of the future; Introduction; Going back to Bernal, inevitably; Convergence and its discontents
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: towards rational governance of visionary ideas?References; 7. Mapping the UK government's genome: analysing convergence in UK policy one decade into the twenty-first century; Introduction; The study: methods and descriptive observations; Discussion and wider reflection on results; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 8. Diagonal convergences: genetic testing, governance, and globalization; Introduction; Two philosophical approaches; 'Genetic exceptionalism', or the private management of personal data; DTCGT: a regulatory conundrum; Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD)
Description / Table of Contents:
Converging technologies, normativity, and sociocultural differencesNotes; References; Part IV: Citizens, amateurs, and democratization; 9. Do-it-yourself biology, garage biology, and kitchen science: a feminist analysis of bio-making narratives; Introduction; Promissory democratization narrative, or hype?; Reconfigured narratives: kitchen science 2.0, Ms. Science, and feminist biohealth hacker; Conclusion: feminist thoughts on a bio-making future; References; 10. Amateurization and re-materialization in biology: opening up scientific equipment; Introduction; Amateur biology and open source
Description / Table of Contents:
Reassembling and circumventing scientific equipment
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