SOC 7108 Chapter 12: SOC 7108 - Chapter 12

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 7108
• Professor: Loes Knaapen

Document Summary

Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual. Among the many consequences regarding the advancement of technology regarding the life sciences has been the mutation of individuals. This is not a simple shift of lay, professional and scientific ideas but a shift regarding the presuppositions of human beings. In this article we focus on the following: They re- shape the ways in which we are governed and the way in which we govern ourselves. Re-cataloguing illness and pathologies through a genic matter does not generate fatalism but creates an obligation to act in the present in relation to the potential futures that now come into view. In other words, the discourse and practices of genetics here link up with those that are at risk. While hereditary knowledge have been associated with risk thinking, predisposition of genetic testing creates a new dimension into genetic risk and new calculability.