Perspectives on Genetic Discrimination

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Thomas Lemke

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Advances in Sociology

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Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this "genetic discrimination" ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems with insurance policies, to difficulties with adoption agencies. The empirical studies on the problem of genetic discrimination have not gone unnoticed. Since the beginning of the 1990s, a series of legislative initiatives and statements, both on the national level and on the part of international and supranational organizations and commissions, have been put forward as ways of protecting people from genetic discrimination. This is the first book to critically evaluate the empirical evidence and the theoretical usefulness of the concept of "genetic discrimination." It discusses the advantages and limitations of adopting the concept, and offers a more complex account distinguishing between several dimensions and forms of genetic discrimination.

Author Biography:

Thomas Lemke is Heisenberg Professor for Sociology with Focus on Biotechnology, Nature and Society, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. He has published extensively on the social, political and ethical aspects of biomedicine, biotechnology and genetics. His research interests include the Sociology of Health and Illness, Political Sociology, Contemporary Social and Political Theory, and Social Studies of Genetics and Biotechnologies. His most recent book publications are Biopolitik zur Einfuhrung, Hamburg: Junius Verlag 2007 (Danish, English and Polish translations in preparation; English translation by NYU Press) and Der medizinische Blick in die Zukunft. Gesellschaftliche Implikationen pradiktiver Gentests (co-authored with Regine Kollek), Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus 2008.

Release date Australia

March 20th, 2013

Author

Thomas Lemke

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

164

Series

Routledge Advances in Sociology

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780415878586

Product ID

10353749

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