EAN: 9781402046186

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This is a dynamic book that successfully combines global and local thinking with regard to an emerging technology that will contribute to the expansion of proteomics and pharmacogenomics the science of tailored healthcare and treatments. Genetic testing and screening will change the way people understand health diagnostic knowledge illness but also crime databases and private information paternity and self-knowledge. In addition to giving individuals the opportunity to think differently about their well-being it installs a new taxonomy in terms of illness because its probabilistic effects will introduce a new narrative in the health discourse of 21st century society. While in the past people could be classified as being healthy or sick now through genetic testing and screening adults can be classified as being healthy predisposed to an illness probably at risk at risk or carriers of certain risks. The effects of this taxonomy do not remain confined to the individual who is tested but extends to an entire family as genetic knowledge is family knowledge. But the technology of genetic testing and screening installs a second dramatic register in the prenatal phase when cells and embryos are tested and subsequently altered in order to hit targets of perfection. However this technology can also be seen as a strategy for the acquisition of new knowledge about oneself as it instigates a different attitude towards ourselves in a scenario in which the notion of life as a singular noun is seriously questioned by cultural practices that make it necessary to speak of forms of life. The complexity of the Self resulting from this epistemological shift evoke the ancient Greco-roman practices of the care of the self leading to self-knowledge. Genetic testing and screening could therefore be understood as a form of self-quest and attempt to discover what we are beyond our wishes and desires - beyond what we would like to be.

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