Studying Genetic Risk in the Conduct of Everyday Life

Authors

  • Lotte Huniche

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v5i1.2161

Keywords:

genes, huntington's disease,

Abstract

This article is a revised version of a talk given in lieu of the Ph.D. dissertation: "Huntington´s Disease in Everyday Life. Knowledge, Ignorance and Genetic Risk". The dissertation evolves around the analysis of modern living with risk for a late onset genetic disorder. Here, three aspects of everyday lives faced with Huntington´s Disease (HD) are discussed. First, HD is one aspect of everyday living along with a variety of other aspects. The importance of risk is analysed as personal and changing in changing circumstances. Second, genetic knowledge and technology are not solid universals, but situated and changing, and of varying importance in lives at risk. Last, the ethical rationalities of everyday living, research and clinical practice concerned with a hereditary condition are discussed as complex and contradictory in and across structures of social practice.

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Published

2003-03-01

How to Cite

Huniche, L. (2003). Studying Genetic Risk in the Conduct of Everyday Life. Outlines. Critical Practice Studies, 5(1), 47–54. https://doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v5i1.2161

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