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Translating genomics

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

Bibliographic Data

ID3081501
AuthorsSahra Gibbons (0000-0002-5185-9750, University College London, UK, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume23
Issue1
Pages95-112
Publication date2016-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistória Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0104-59702016000100007
PMID27008076
OpenAlexW2319345084
SCIELO_PIDS0104-59702016000100095
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited31

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

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Unique citing works5
Citations per year0,5
Citation span2016 - 2022 (7)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 5
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