Ordinary genomes science, citizenship, and genetic identities /.

Taussig, Karen-Sue

Ordinary genomes science, citizenship, and genetic identities /. - XII, 247 p. ill. ;. - Experimental futures : : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780822345169 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822345343 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Genetic counseling--Netherlands
Genetics--Social aspects--Netherlands
Group identity--Netherlands
National characteristics, Dutch