This collection brings together cross-disciplinary social science research on areas including the US, Israel, India, Greece, UK, France, Brazil, Uruguay and Germany to provide a unique comparative perspective on the developments which have taken place in the intervening fifteen years.

Foreword by Rayna Rapp Introduction Section I: Practices of Population, Politics and History in the Production of BRCA 1. The Presence of the Past: BRCA 'Ashkenazi Mutations' and Transnational Differences in Categories of 'Race' and 'Ethnicity': The German Case 2. Mapping Jewish Identities: Migratory Histories and the Transnational Re-Framing of the 'Ashkenazi BRCA Mutations' in the UK and Brazil 3. Genetics to the People: BRCA as Public Health and the Dissemination of Cancer Risk Knowledge Middleword I: Historicizing Biomedicine - Toward a History of the Present of BRCA Section II: Risk, Personhood and Subjectivity 4. Situating Breast Cancer Risk in Urban India: Gender, Temporality and Social Change 5. Gender Trouble? Queering the Medical Normativity of BRCA Femininities 6. It Takes a Particular World to Produce and Enact BRCA Testing: The US had It, Italy had Another Middleword II: Pushing the Boundaries Section III: Shifting Terrains of BRCA Knowledge and Practices 7. "Empowerment" and the Rendering of Biocapital in Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genomics 8. The BRCA Patent Controversies: An International Review of Patent Disputes 9. From BRCA to BRCAness: Tales of translational research 10. BRCA Interrupted: Reproductive Technologies and the Reiteration-Reformulation of Cancer Legacies. Afterword: Studying BRCA performativity. Re-Calibrations by and of the Social Sciences