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The postgenomic condition: ethics, justice, and knowledge after the genome

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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.

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University of Chicago Press
022634519X / 9780226345192
eBook (Adobe Pdf, EPUB)
29/12/2017
English
299 pages
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