The Epigenomic Self in Personalized Medicine

Between Responsibility and Empowerment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3352804
AutoresLuca Chiapperino (0000-0002-7071-7555), G Testa (0000-0002-9104-0918)
Año2016
Volumen64
Número1_suppl
Páginas203-220
Fecha de publicación2016-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/2059-7932.12021
OpenAlexW4255637035
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas51

This paper focuses on two areas of innovation currently articulating the agenda of personalized medicine (PM): the discourse of empowerment in health-care reforms and the rise of molecular epigenomics. We align these two developments as discursive and technical resources, focusing on their nascent interplay in shaping alternative sociotechnical imaginaries of PM. Our work aims at inaugurating an intellectual programme on the distinct futures of policy- and identity-making that are being catalysed around epigenomic technoscience, as well as to provide an operational map of its potential synergies with pre-existing socio-political discourses of empowerment in PM. This roadmap advances our understanding of how the intersection of epigenomics with dominant policy discourses becomes a resource to shape roles and obligations of citizens, patients and health-care actors in the emergence of PM

Biology · Business · Economics · Empowerment · Engineering ethics · Epigenomics · Futures contract · Identity (music) · Management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Technoscience · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering · Engineering · Epigenetics and DNA Methylation · Law · Race, Genetics, and Society