TY - BOOK ID - 9506080 TI - Genetic imaginations : ethical, legal and social issues in human genome research. AU - Glasner, Peter E. AU - Rothman, Harry PY - 1999 SN - 1840143568 PB - Aldershot Ashgate DB - UniCat KW - #GBIB:CBMER KW - Medical genetics KW - Social aspects. KW - Social aspects KW - Human Genome Project KW - HGP KW - H.G.P. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9506080 AB - The chapters in this volume address the issues of human genetics and new technologies through discussions of choice and informed decision-making, risks and hazards, the economic and political organization of new technology, and the public as well as the scientists understanding of science. The title of this book derives from C. Wright Mills' classics "The sociological imagination" (Penguin, 1970), in which he sees the essential project of social science as the use of the imagination to "grasp history and biography and the relations between the two in society". This enables the social scientist to "range from the most impersonal and remote transformations to the most intimate features of the human self". Another of Mills' concerns was the relationship between "the personal troubles of the milieu" and "the public issues of social structure" and these are most acutely illustrated in human genetics, the most personal of the new technologies. The chapters in this volume address these issues through discussions of choice and informed decision-making, risks and hazards, the economic and political organization of the new technology, and the public as well as the scientist's understanding of science. The methods used range from defiled ethnographies, through deconstructions of text and action, to surveys and interviews. ER -