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CyberGenetics : Health Genetics and New Media by Anna Harris, (Medical anthropologist); Susan Kelly; Sally Wyatt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Online genetic testing services are increasingly being offered to consumers who are becoming exposed to, and knowledgeable about, new kinds of genetic technologies, as the launch of a 23andme genetic testing product in the UK testifies. Genetic research breakthroughs, cheek swabbing forensic pathologists and celebrities discovering their ancestral roots are littered throughout the North American, European and Australasian media landscapes. Genetic testing is now capturing the attention, and imagination, of hundreds of thousands of people who can not only buy genetic tests online, but can also go online to find relatives, share their results with strangers, sign up for personal DNA-based musical scores, and take part in research. This book critically examines this market of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing from a social science perspective, asking, what happens when genetics goes online?With a focus on genetic testing for disease, the book is about the new social arrangements which emerge when a traditionally clinical practice (genetic testing) is taken into new spaces (the internet). It examines the intersections of new genetics and new media by drawing from three different

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Author

Anna Harris, (Medical anthropologist); Susan Kelly; Sally Wyatt

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138351936

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Science, Social Science