Translating genomics

Cancer genetics, public health and the making of the (de)molecularised body in Cuba and Brazil

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3081501
AutoresSahra Gibbons (0000-0002-5185-9750, University College London, UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume23
Fascículo1
Páginas95-112
Data de publicação2016-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistória Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0104-59702016000100007
PMID27008076
OpenAlexW2319345084
SCIELO_PIDS0104-59702016000100095
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas31

This article examines how cancer genetics has emerged as a focus for research and healthcare in Cuba and Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken in community genetics clinics and cancer genetics services, the article examines how the knowledge and technologies associated with this novel area of healthcare are translated and put to work by researchers, health professionals, patients and their families in these two contexts. It illuminates the comparative similarities and differences in how cancer genetics is emerging in relation to transnational research priorities, the history and contemporary politics of public health and embodied vulnerability to cancer that reconfigures the scope and meaning of genomics as "personalised" medicine

Biology · Cancer · Cancer genetics · Genome · Genomics · Health care · Political science · Public health · Scope (computer science) · Sociology · BRCA gene mutations in cancer · Ethics in Clinical Research · Genetics · Medicine · Nursing · Race, Genetics, and Society