5.
The Anthropology of Genetic Science
Convenor:
Angela Procoli,
Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale
The workshop aims
to focus on the contemporary developments in the scientific understanding of genetics
and the ways these developments are transforming the possible relations between
humans and their natural environnement. Recent advances in the applications of
genetic science raise important sociological and ethical issues (patentability
of the living, reductionism and biological determinism, social discrimination
based on biology) and have significant implications in the way of representing
the “living”. To what extent does the remarkable progress of
biotechnology makes the concept of “personhood” to evolve?
To draw out these issues, contributions will discuss, on the one hand, examples on the making of scientific knowledge (community of geneticists, bio-database programs) and, on the other hand, examples in applied human genetics (genetic testing, antenatal screening, genetic therapy).
The making of knowledge in genomics : a new field for anthropology
Angela
Procoli, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale
The premature birth of a biobank:
Abortion or miscarriage?
Gísli Pálsson,
University of Iceland
Nurturing women and the BRCA genes;
emerGhent bio-socialities of predictive medicine.
Sahra Gibbon, University
College London
Predispositions:
contemporary life in biotechnology and biography
Hannah
Landecker, Rice
University
Individualisation of Women's lives
Bernhard
Wieser, Wilhelm Berger and
Sandra Karner, IFF-TEWI
Reflections upon
a racialised reprogenetic media event: the birth of ‘black’ twins
to a white IVF mother
Katharine
Tyler, University of Surrey
The
Laboratory in Society. Symbolic discrouse and socio-genetic boundaries in East
Asia and European contexts
Margaret
Sleeboom, International Institute for Asian Studies
The case of the genetic disease: Thalassaemia, in the era of the new
genetics
Aglaia Chatjouli, Aegean
University