Narrating the New Predictive Genetics: Ethics, Ethnography and Science

Monica Konrad

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511584183

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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-6

I - ETHNOGRAPHY AS LINKAGE MAP
pp 7-8

1 - Thinking futures
pp 9-28

2 - Approaching translocations
pp 29-58

II - ‘HOME TRUTHS’
pp 59-60

3 - Foretelling foreknowledge
pp 61-86

4 - Tracing genealogies of non-disclosure
pp 87-106

III - RELATIONAL ETHICS IN PRACTICE
pp 107-108

5 - Reproducing exclusion
pp 109-123

6 - Relinquishing exclusion
pp 124-145

7 - Concluding remarks
pp 146-159

Appendix
pp 160-163

Notes
pp 164-179

Bibliography
pp 180-196

Index
pp 197-203

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