Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics

Karen Sue Taussig; Rayna Rapp; Deborah Heath

doi:10.1002/9780470775875.ch8

Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics

Karen Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, Deborah Heath

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Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Anthropologies of Modernity
Subtitle of host publication	Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics
Publisher	Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Pages	194-212
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Print)	9780631228264
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470775875.ch8
State	Published - Apr 21 2008

Keywords

Achondroplasia
Clinical diagnosis
Eugenics
Molecular technologies
Prenatal screening

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Social Sciences(all)

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