Between Knowledge and Practice
On Medical Professionals, Patients, and the Making of the Genetics of Cancer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11923787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paolo Palladino (0000-0001-8001-6691, Department of History, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA 1 4YG, UK; fax: +44 1524 846102, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 137-165 |
| Publication date | 2002-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Studies of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-3127 • E-ISSN: 1460-3659 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0306312702032001006 |
| OpenAlex | W2060917853 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 6 |
In this paper, I examine the historical development of a clinical test for `familial adenomatous polyposis' (FAP), an inherited condition which often leads to cancer of the colon. By paying attention to continuities and changes, especially in the engagement between those medical professionals and patients involved in the development of this test, I reconsider the relationship between knowledge and practice, with an eye to Michel Foucault's and Paul Rabinow's competing notions of `bio-power' and `biosociality'. I conclude by offering some speculative suggestions for further avenues of inquiry into the constitution of the `subject
Cancer · Clinical Practice · Colorectal cancer · Constitution · Epistemology · Familial adenomatous polyposis · Family medicine · Medical education · Medical practice · Michel foucault · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Test (biology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Medical History and Research · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology
From Cancer Families to HNPCC
Introduction
Apparitions and Possessions as Boundary Objects
Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects
Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds
Keywords in Qualitative Methods
BRCA Patients and Clinical Collectives
Cancer genetics and its ‘different faces of autonomy’
Local mutations
Following cancer viruses through the laboratory, clinic, and society
Converging Epistemic Cultures
Unambiguous test results or individual independence? The role of clients and families in predictive BRCA-testing in the Netherlands compared to the USA
Norm Change in Genetic Services. How the Discourse of Choice Replaced the Discourse of Prevention
The evolution of the concept of medicalization in the late twentieth century
Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2002
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2021 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |