Lecture: Genetic Medicine as Subjectivity Practice

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Title: Genetic Medicine as Subjectivity Practice
Description: The results of genetic examinations can reveal profound consequences for the lives of the tested individual. A diagnosis confronts the tested self with its own finiteness, with specific health risks or with the possibility to pass on genetic mutation to one’s own offspring. How do people deal with a “genetic knowledge” conveyed to them by medical action? How does that shape their self-conception and their relationships to others? Against this backdrop I will address subjectivity processes in the context of modern genetic medicine. I will discuss current STS literature on the topic and draw on empirical findings of my own research.
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Type: Invited speaker
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Event: Seminarios "Genetic Medicine as Subjectivity Practice" (Consesjo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid/Spanien)
Date: 05.06.2009
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Participants
Bernhard Wieser
Bernhard.Wieser@aau.at
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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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