... genetic screening reproductive dystopia reproductive technologies race genetic risk ...

... individual citizens responsible for ensuring good health by reducing genetic risk may support the wider incorporation of genetic technologies into the neoliberal health care system. The author argues, therefore, that we need a new reproductive dystopia that accounts for the changing political context...

... the benefits of genetic research to people of color, and media promoting genetic technologies have prominently featured their images. At the same time, the important role of genetic screening that makes individual citizens responsible for ensuring good health by reducing genetic risk may support the wider...

...Risks This chapter discusses the creation of multiethnic DNA databases in Singapore and why scientists there consider their genomic data to be more important than that captured by DeCODE in Iceland. Citing variability in DNA and populations in the Asian region, Singaporean biostatisticians...

...The Confédération Paysanne’s Early Anti-gmo Campaign, from Risk to Globalization ...

... on epigenetics-based biomedical and public health interventions recommended by leading scientists suggests a need for sensitivity to how certain bodies or spaces become intensive targets of intervention when conceptualized as amplifying vectors of risk within the explanatory landscape of epigenetics...

... institutions on the other. This raises questions about the relationship between responsibility and power and the limits of corporate social responsibility. My case studies show that while employees are increasingly burdened with personal responsibility and risk, the law of limited liability protects companies...

... these restrictions. This is especially true for third-party reproductive assistance (egg and sperm donation, as well as surrogacy), which is prohibited by the Sunni Islamic authorities and is now illegal in the Emirates. Moreover, women needing a selective abortion to “reduce” high-risk, multifetal IVF pregnancies...

.... Although the bank carefully weighed what it considered the benefits and risks to what “may well be the final adjustment operation necessary for Bolivia,” its anticipation of the negative consequences of radical privatization would prove all too accurate in the years ahead. During Gonzalo Sánchez de...