IsisCB Explore

Book ID: CBB800995116

The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge after the Genome (2017)

Reardon, Jenny (Author)

University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2017
Language: English

ISBN: 9780226510453

Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 304 pages

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

Google Books

Now that we have sequenced the human genome, what does it mean? In The Postgenomic Condition, Jenny Reardon critically examines the decade after the Human Genome Project, and the fundamental questions about meaning, value and justice this landmark achievement left in its wake. Drawing on more than a decade of research—in molecular biology labs, commercial startups, governmental agencies, and civic spaces—Reardon demonstrates how the extensive efforts to transform genomics from high tech informatics practiced by a few to meaningful knowledge beneficial to all exposed the limits of long-cherished liberal modes of knowing and governing life. Those in the American South challenged the value of being included in genomics when no hospital served their community. Ethicists and lawyers charged with overseeing Scottish DNA and data questioned how to develop a system of ownership for these resources when their capacity to create things of value—new personalized treatments—remained largely unrealized. Molecular biologists who pioneered genomics asked whether their practices of thinking could survive the deluge of data produced by the growing power of sequencing machines. While the media is filled with grand visions of precision medicine, The Postgenomic Condition shares these actual challenges of the scientists, entrepreneurs, policy makers, bioethicists, lawyers, and patient advocates who sought to leverage liberal democratic practices to render genomic data a new source of meaning and value for interpreting and caring for life. It brings into rich empirical focus the resulting hard on-the-ground questions about how to know and live on a depleted but data-rich, interconnected yet fractured planet, where technoscience garners significant resources, but deeper questions of knowledge and justice urgently demand attention.

...More

Citation URI

data.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB800995116

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Hayden, Cori; (2007)
Taking as Giving: Bioscience, Exchange, and the Politics of Benefit-Sharing (/p/isis/citation/CBB000773319/)

Article Davide Battisti; (2019)
Genome editing: slipping down toward Eugenics? (/p/isis/citation/CBB945724739/)

Book Frank Sobiech; (2016)
Ethos, Bioethics, and Sexual Ethics in Work and Reception of the Anatomist Niels Stensen (/p/isis/citation/CBB491687710/)

Article Maria Rosa Montinari; (2020)
Adult stem cells in cardiovascular medicine: historical overview and ethical issues (/p/isis/citation/CBB295820660/)

Article Pierre-Luc Germain; Luca Chiapperino; Giuseppe Testa; (2017)
The European politics of animal experimentation: From Victorian Britain to ‘Stop Vivisection’ (/p/isis/citation/CBB443117651/)

Book Rob Boddice; (2016)
The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization (/p/isis/citation/CBB826467140/)

Article Gomela, Elana; (2011)
Science (Fiction) and Posthuman Ethics: Redefining the Human (/p/isis/citation/CBB001212424/)

Article Clayton, Jay; (2013)
The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman (/p/isis/citation/CBB001200682/)

Article Rosagemma Ciliberti; Alessandro Bonsignore; Paolo Gianatti; Nicolò Patroniti; (2023)
Assisted suicide and new issues: The Ethics Committees (/p/isis/citation/CBB953056259/)

Article M'charek, Amade; Hagendijk, Rob; Vries, Wiebe de; (2013)
Equal before the Law: On the Machinery of Sameness in Forensic DNA Practice (/p/isis/citation/CBB001320664/)

Article Prescott, Heather Munro; (2002)
Using the Student Body: College and University Students as Research Subjects in the United States during the Twentieth Century (/p/isis/citation/CBB000200367/)

Article Carvalho, André Luis de Lima; Waizbort, Ricardo; (2010)
A dor além dos confins do homem: aproximações preliminares ao debate entre Frances Power Cobbe e os darwinistas a respeito da vivissecção na Inglaterra vitoriana (1863--1904) (/p/isis/citation/CBB001420463/)

Thesis McGuire, Amy L.; (2004)
Respect for Research Subjects: Reality or Rhetoric? (/p/isis/citation/CBB001561831/)

Article Hansson, Mats G.; (2006)
Combining Efficiency and Concerns about Integrity When Using Human Biobanks (/p/isis/citation/CBB000770739/)

Article Hedgecoe, Adam M.; (2006)
Context, Ethics and Pharmacogenetics (/p/isis/citation/CBB000770742/)

Book Maehle, Andreas-Holger; Geyer-Kordesch, Johanna; (2002)
Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: From Paternalism to Autonomy? (/p/isis/citation/CBB000201467/)

Book Sebastiano Serafini; (2019)
La bioetica in Italia: da una storia di battaglie etico-politiche a spiragli di dialogo tra pensiero cattolico e pensiero laico (/p/isis/citation/CBB039016702/)

Thesis Mitch Goldsmith; (2023)
The Unfinished Business of Anna Kingsford: Science, Enchantment, and Experiments on Animals (/p/isis/citation/CBB697646509/)

Book Lone Frank; (2018)
The Pleasure Shock: The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor (/p/isis/citation/CBB884931356/)

Article Chakrabarti, Pratik; (2010)
Beasts of Burden: Animals and Laboratory Research in Colonial India (/p/isis/citation/CBB000953653/)