Beschreibung:
Explores the mutually constructive relationship between increasing scientific knowledge of human genetics and cultural identity through a case study of the development and reception of genomics in the Netherlands.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Science, Subjectivity, and Citizenship 11. "God Made the World and the Dutch Made Holland" 172. Genetics and the Organization of Genetic Practice in the Netherlands 573. The Social and Clinical Production of Ordinariness 854. Backward and Beautiful: Calvinism, Chromosomes, and the Production of Genetic Knowledge 1355. Bovine Abominations: Contesting Genetic Technologies 159Epilogue. Ordinary Genomes in a Globalizing World 189Notes 201Bibliography 217Index 235