Genetics critical concepts in social and cultural theory

• Main Author: Redclift, Nanneke
• Other Authors: Gibbon, Sahra
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2006
• Subjects: Human genetics > Social aspects; Genetic engineering > Social aspects; Genetics > Social aspects
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• Physical Description: 4 v. illustration 24 cm
• ISBN: 0415342309 (set); 0415342317 (v.1); 0415342325 (v.2); 0415342333 (v.3); 041537670X (v.4); 9780415342308 (set); 9780415342315 (v. 1); 9780415342322 (v. 2); 9780415342339 (v. 3); 9780415376709 (v. 4)

Scientific developments have always been central to conceptions of society at particular historical moments. However, the rise of molecular biology and the new genetic knowledge in the twentieth century pose particular challenges to our notions of the individual, our sense of past and future, and our relationships with the body, nature and the family. As a number of authors have suggested, the meanings of `life itself' may be in the process of subtle transformation and many of these reconfigurations are occurring more rapidly than our ability to fully grasp their social and cultural implications.