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Genomics with Care
Minding the Double Binds of Science
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Mike Fortun
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, and statistics, and ethics.
Author / Editor information
Mike Fortun is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation.
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“Genomics with Care is an inventive, generous, funny, rigorous, and path-opening contribution to the anthropology of science that teaches readers new methods of understanding science as a vocation. Mike Fortun deftly fuses attention to the social affects and effects that accompany research in today’s molecular biology. This utterly splendid book reminds us what science and science studies are for.”
-- Stefan Helmreich, author of A Book of Waves
“This brilliant and much-needed intervention into science and technology studies provides an affecting model for reading not just genomics, but the sciences in general. It opens a new path for thinking and writing differently in relation to the natural sciences. Indeed, it is a superb model for scholars and students who wish to read any text, community, or epistemology in a caring and critical way.”
-- Elizabeth A. Wilson, author of Gut Feminism
"While scientific practice is often thought to be devoid of affective influence from practitioners, it is nonetheless a human endeavor and often defenseless against the affective nature of the human condition. Fortun employs the scientific literature as a source of observational data to produce an ethnographic exploration of the process of science within the context of genomics research. . . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals."
-- J. A. Hewlett Choice
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Poem-Like Tolls 1. A Prelude
1 - Part I. Genomics, Double Binds, Affects
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1. Fors
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2. Labyrinth Life. Affect Excess Infrastructure
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3. Double Binds of Science
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Poem-Like Tolls 2. An Interlude
103 - Part II. Minding the Infrastructures of Genomics
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4. Curation. Of Data’s Limit
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5. Scrupulousness. Of Experiment’s Limit
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6. Solicitude. Of Science’s Limit
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7. Friendship. Of Community’s Limit
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Poem-Like Tolls. An Appendix
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Postscript
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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June 30, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781478024521
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360
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Professional and scholarly;
