Genomics with Care
Minding the Double Binds of Science
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2023
360 pages
978-1-4780-2452-1 (ISBN)
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Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, and statistics, and ethics.
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Duke University Press
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Mike Fortun is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Poem-Like Tolls 1: A Prelude 1
Part I. Genomics, Double Binds, Affects
1. Fors 13
2. Labyrinth Life: Affect Excess Infrastructure 42
3. Double Binds of Science 80
Poem-Like Tolls 2: An Interlude
Part II. Minding the Infrastructure of Genomics
4. Curation: Of Data's Limits 111
5. Scrupulousness: Of Experiment's Limit 141
6. Solicitude: Of Science's Limit 183
7. Friendship: Of Community's Limits 221
Poem-Like Tolls 3: An Appendix 253
Postscript 259
Notes 277
Works Cited 311
Index 337
Poem-Like Tolls 1: A Prelude 1
Part I. Genomics, Double Binds, Affects
1. Fors 13
2. Labyrinth Life: Affect Excess Infrastructure 42
3. Double Binds of Science 80
Poem-Like Tolls 2: An Interlude
Part II. Minding the Infrastructure of Genomics
4. Curation: Of Data's Limits 111
5. Scrupulousness: Of Experiment's Limit 141
6. Solicitude: Of Science's Limit 183
7. Friendship: Of Community's Limits 221
Poem-Like Tolls 3: An Appendix 253
Postscript 259
Notes 277
Works Cited 311
Index 337
