Vortrag: Regimes of Recruiting

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Titel: Regimes of Recruiting
Beschreibung: The discourse of risks and benefits of genome research can be analysed as an economy of promises. Not only scientists but also STS-researchers engage in such discourses. From an economic perspective, however, these promises contrast with the fact that so far especially diagnostics has been a branch with low margins (cf. Kling 2006; Baker 2006). Consequently, in our research project on genetic testing we address diffusion processes. Rather than speculating what might happen in the future, we focus on what takes place already here and now. Current applications of the “new genetics” may not appear ground breaking in the light of the promises, and yet they change people’s lives effectively. The way in which individuals are confronted with and recruited for genetic tests is organized in medical routines. Above all screening programmes function as powerful recruiting regimes. Particularly newborns are tested for a rapidly increasing number of genetic conditions. With our research we show the significance of technological innovations and how they change clinical (and counselling) arrangements. Furthermore our results reveal the recruiting function of non-genetic methods which serve as an instrument for the identification of risk populations. At the same time genetic methods become standardized and diffuse into various clinical departments. Along these lines we argue that the new genetics and its applications diffuse into medical branches which exceed the sphere of activity of geneticists. In these contexts medical interventions often follow their own logics and physicians apply recruiting strategies which come into conflict with the ethical standards of genetic counselling.
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Homepage: http://www.ifz.tugraz.at/index.php/articleview/1145/1/80
Veranstaltung: CESAGen/CSG 4th International Conference (Royal Society, London/UK)
Datum: 28.03.2007
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Bernhard Wieser
Bernhard.Wieser@aau.at
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