Karen-Sue Taussig
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen-Sue Taussig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen-Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Taussig |
| SIGNATURE | TAUSSIG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reconceiving the New World Order
Genetics
The Anthropology of Potentiality in Biomedicine
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, potentiality serves as a central concept in the life sciences and in medical practices. This special issue of Current Anthropology explores how genes, cells, bodies, and populations as well as technologies, disciplines, and research areas become imbued with potential. We suggest that anthropologists of the life sciences and biomedicine should work reflexively with the concept of potentiality and the p…
Extremities
Emergent conditions of life at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century create new opportunities and challenges for medical anthropology. The articles included in this special issue of Medical Anthropology suggest four areas that call out for more attention: the changing scientific and philosophical status of the human, including definitions of life and biology more broadly; the material consequences of anticipatory fictions; the e…
Ambiguous Mutations
Bovine Abominations
This article examines how people in the Netherlands attempted to come to terms with the phenomenon of a genetically modified bull, illuminating the levels of enculturation surrounding the production, consumption, and use of new genetic knowledge. The article demonstrates that new genetic knowledge and practices are deeply entangled with Dutch national identity, the social ideal of tolerance, and anxieties about what Dutch identity is and means in…
Genealogical Dis-Ease
Conjuring Science
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 3, Fall 1998
The Anthropology of Potentiality in Biomedicine
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, potentiality serves as a central concept in the life sciences and in medical practices. This special issue of Current Anthropology explores how genes, cells, bodies, and populations as well as technologies, disciplines, and research areas become imbued with potential. We suggest that anthropologists of the life sciences and biomedicine should work reflexively with the concept of potentiality and the p…
Bovine Abominations
This article examines how people in the Netherlands attempted to come to terms with the phenomenon of a genetically modified bull, illuminating the levels of enculturation surrounding the production, consumption, and use of new genetic knowledge. The article demonstrates that new genetic knowledge and practices are deeply entangled with Dutch national identity, the social ideal of tolerance, and anxieties about what Dutch identity is and means in…
Extremities
Emergent conditions of life at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century create new opportunities and challenges for medical anthropology. The articles included in this special issue of Medical Anthropology suggest four areas that call out for more attention: the changing scientific and philosophical status of the human, including definitions of life and biology more broadly; the material consequences of anticipatory fictions; the e…
Conjuring Science
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 3, Fall 1998
Genealogical Dis-Ease
Bovine Abominations
This article examines how people in the Netherlands attempted to come to terms with the phenomenon of a genetically modified bull, illuminating the levels of enculturation surrounding the production, consumption, and use of new genetic knowledge. The article demonstrates that new genetic knowledge and practices are deeply entangled with Dutch national identity, the social ideal of tolerance, and anxieties about what Dutch identity is and means in…
Ambiguous Mutations
Extremities
Emergent conditions of life at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century create new opportunities and challenges for medical anthropology. The articles included in this special issue of Medical Anthropology suggest four areas that call out for more attention: the changing scientific and philosophical status of the human, including definitions of life and biology more broadly; the material consequences of anticipatory fictions; the e…
The Anthropology of Potentiality in Biomedicine
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, potentiality serves as a central concept in the life sciences and in medical practices. This special issue of Current Anthropology explores how genes, cells, bodies, and populations as well as technologies, disciplines, and research areas become imbued with potential. We suggest that anthropologists of the life sciences and biomedicine should work reflexively with the concept of potentiality and the p…
Genetics
Reconceiving the New World Order
Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)