Reproductive Genetics, Gender and the Body

Reproductive Genetics, Gender and the Body

Reproductive Genetics, Gender and the Body
By E. Ettorre

Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: 2002-05-31
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415213843
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415213844
Binding: Hardcover

In this topical and scholarly book, Elizabeth Ettorre focuses on prenatal screening to explore how the key concepts of gender and the body are intertwined with the whole process of building genetic knowledge, including specific techniques and procedures. She shows how at the interface between genetics and the space defined as 'prenatal' the modernist tradition of scientific disinterestedness is being replaced by a new ethic: the making of moral judgements by scientists.