The postgenomic condition : ethics, justice, and knowledge after the genome /

While the sequencing of the human genome was a landmark achievement, the availability and manipulation of such a vast amount of data about our species has inevitably led to questions that are increasingly fundamental and urgent: now that information about human bodies can be transformed into a natur...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Reardon, Jenny, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The postgenomic condition: an introduction
  • The information of life or the life of information?
  • Inclusion: can genomics be antiracist?
  • Who represents the human genome? What is the human genome?
  • Genomics for the people or the rise of the machines?
  • Genomics for the 98 percent?
  • The genomic open 2.0: the public v. the public
  • Life on Third: knowledge and justice after the genome
  • Epilogue.