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Genomic susceptibility testing and pregnancy: something old, something new
This essay explores how testing for common and complex or genomic, as opposed to genetic, susceptibility to deep vein thrombosis both challenges and consolidates old social discourses on genes, gender and pregnancy. The nexus between genetics and reproduction usually crystallizes in the moral dilemm...
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| description | This essay explores how testing for common and complex or genomic, as opposed to genetic, susceptibility to deep vein thrombosis both challenges and consolidates old social discourses on genes, gender and pregnancy. The nexus between genetics and reproduction usually crystallizes in the moral dilemma of selective termination. This essay examines on-line discussion among women with a genomic predisposition to deep vein thrombosis, which is associated with miscarriage and stillbirth. It explores the women’s exchanges on what to “do” in order to safely carry to term a foetus, which may always also have the genomic susceptibility. Interpreting DNA not in terms of predicting fate but of suggesting how to modify one’s behaviour in order to give and care for life blunts its eugenistic edge. However, this interpretation also shoulders discussants with the complicated and laborious responsibility of modifying themselves, their life-styles and the life-styles of their families—all of which falls within women’s traditional labour of love in the privatised age of bioindividuality. |
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| spelling | rr-article-94726132004-01-01T00:00:00Z Genomic susceptibility testing and pregnancy: something old, something new Paula Saukko (1254435) Sociology not elsewhere classified Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Genetic testing Genetic thrombophilia Factor V Leiden Genomics Preventive genetics Prenatal testing Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Sociology This essay explores how testing for common and complex or genomic, as opposed to genetic, susceptibility to deep vein thrombosis both challenges and consolidates old social discourses on genes, gender and pregnancy. The nexus between genetics and reproduction usually crystallizes in the moral dilemma of selective termination. This essay examines on-line discussion among women with a genomic predisposition to deep vein thrombosis, which is associated with miscarriage and stillbirth. It explores the women’s exchanges on what to “do” in order to safely carry to term a foetus, which may always also have the genomic susceptibility. Interpreting DNA not in terms of predicting fate but of suggesting how to modify one’s behaviour in order to give and care for life blunts its eugenistic edge. However, this interpretation also shoulders discussants with the complicated and laborious responsibility of modifying themselves, their life-styles and the life-styles of their families—all of which falls within women’s traditional labour of love in the privatised age of bioindividuality. 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/5636 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Genomic_susceptibility_testing_and_pregnancy_something_old_something_new/9472613 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Sociology not elsewhere classified Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Genetic testing Genetic thrombophilia Factor V Leiden Genomics Preventive genetics Prenatal testing Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Sociology Paula Saukko Genomic susceptibility testing and pregnancy: something old, something new |
| title | Genomic susceptibility testing and pregnancy: something old, something new |
| title_full | Genomic susceptibility testing and pregnancy: something old, something new |
| title_fullStr | Genomic susceptibility testing and pregnancy: something old, something new |
| title_full_unstemmed | Genomic susceptibility testing and pregnancy: something old, something new |
| title_short | Genomic susceptibility testing and pregnancy: something old, something new |
| title_sort | genomic susceptibility testing and pregnancy: something old, something new |
| topic | Sociology not elsewhere classified Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Genetic testing Genetic thrombophilia Factor V Leiden Genomics Preventive genetics Prenatal testing Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Sociology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/5636 |