In this article we discuss the development of a practice of screening, preventive treatment,
and presymptomatic testing for individuals at risk of Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) …

Assumptions about the 'new genetics' and its potential to transform health and
'empower''consumers' are nowhere more clearly articulated than in the rapidly developing …

Genetics is a branch of the life sciences. In university organograms it does not appear under
the social sciences and humanities, like anthropology does. But actually genetics, in a …

This article explores the relationship between science and morality with respect to the major
changes that genetic knowledge has induced in medicine, as well as in many other spheres …

This article explores the ethical challenges following the use of genetic information in
experimental cancer treatment. In Danish healthcare, current ethical debates on the wider …

This chapter investigates the relationship between the molecularization of hereditary
colorectal cancer and forms of care that are associated with people and families who have …

This article explores the processes through which the advances of genetic research are
incorporated into public health care in Denmark. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in …

Common sense states that problems make people look for solutions. This article proposes
the contrary, ie that solutions provide the framework within which certain problems can be …

Following the identifi cation of two susceptibility genes in the mid-1990s, BRCA1 and
BRCA2, clinical breast cancer genetics has been at the vanguard of developments in the …

This introduction chapter provides an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book explores how genetics and society are shaped by …