期刊名称：Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education
电子版ISSN：1916-9221
出版年度：2014
卷号：15
期号：107
页码：137-157
语种：English
出版社：Canadian Society for Studies in Education
摘要：http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8951.2014v15n107p137 The so-called genetic revolution, developments in the life sciences and the rise of predictive medicine has stimulated social research not only to examine the novel forms of health and identity brought about at these junctures, but has also more recently involved efforts to examine how ‘older’ cultural categories of difference and identity such as race and ethnicity might be given new life by the development of new genetic knowledge and technologies. Gender must be regarded as an equally important category of difference that is also being informed by developments in genomics. In this paper I will examine these questions in relation to this particular area of genomic science and medicine by focusing on a domain known commonly as ‘breast cancer genetics’. The developments explored in this paper can be usefully examined in the light of the notion of ‘pluripotency’ in referring to the diverse and dynamic modes through which female gender has informed, been central to and itself sometimes been transformed in relation to the field of knowledge and technology associated with the BRCA genes.
关键词：Genetics;Gender;Health;Breast cancer;Identity;Genética;Gênero;Saúde;Câncer de Mama;Identidade
