If behaviour stemming from genetic testing will influence the shape of future population in terms of genes and attitudes to illness, which parts of the world population will change?
The nature of the population in any given part of the world relies heavily on traditions, beliefs, socieconomic status and access to technologies. Just as the influx [...]
The geneticisation of disease has individualising, deterministic and reductive tendencies (Lippman, 1991).
Determinism seem to be one of the hardest things to deal with. Choice and a self-determinative approach to life have become such important components in our existence. A predictable path in life has been replaced with a world of possibilities or opportunities, to know [...]
Business ventures such as umbilical cord blood banks and genetics diagnosis services target parental fears and establish new familial duties. The decision to reproduce is culturally linked to an array of responsibilities: financial, emotional, psychological. When we believe it is in our power to determine the unborn’s future health we are told we must also [...]
Tagged business, fear, responsibilityKnowledge changes our perception of biology, replacing natural chaos with mathematical order. Statistics, quantification, calculations, numbers, charts and graphs, externalise and give form to our bodily functions and components. With a data sheet, there is suddenly simplified information to consider, and a mathematical equasion eludes that there are right and wrong answers.
Tagged BRCA, gene, information, visualisation