Lecture: Embedded diffusion

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Title: Embedded diffusion
Description: The discourse of risks and benefits of genome research can be analysed as an economy of promises. But even though “the new genetics” is repeatedly advocated as an auspicious field of innovation, beneficial for both global health problems and related economies, these promises contrast with the fact that so far especially diagnostics has been a branch with low margins (cf. Kling 2006; Baker 2006). For that reason, in our research project on genetic testing we address diffusion processes. The way in which individuals are confronted with medical innovations and recruited for genetic tests is organized in medical routines. Above all screening programmes function as powerful recruiting framework for genetic examinations. 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 arrangements. Our empirical findings highlight the significance of diffusion processes for the assessment of genetic research. Particularly screening is an example for the rapid diffusion of diagnostic innovations due to its integration in well established medical routines, while at the same time their ethical and social implications often remain concealed for those who are screened.
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Type: Registered lecture
Homepage: http://www.ifz.tugraz.at/index.php/articleview/1145/1/80
Event: 8th Conference of the European Sociological Association ESA (Glasgow/UK)
Date: 04.09.2007
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Participants
Harald Rohracher
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Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften
  Institut für Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung
B07b (LS) / Universitätsstraße 65-67
9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Austria
   andrea.lassnig@aau.at
https://www.aau.at/sts/
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B07b (LS) / Universitätsstraße 65-67
AT - 9020  Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

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  • 5912 - Social sciences (interdisciplinary)
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