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RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric. Being at Genetic Risk : Toward a Rhetoric of Care / Kelly Pender.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric ; 10Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271083025
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.4/3 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1618.A7 M3513 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Following Mol’s Lead: From Diabetes to BRCA Risk -- 2 From Ideology to Governmentality: A Constructivist View of Genetic Risk -- 3 Making Risk Real: A Praxiographic Inquiry into Being BRCA+ -- 4 Toward a Rhetoric of Care for the At Risk -- Conclusion: Invention in RSTM: Another Moderate Response to the Two-World Problem -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Rhetorics of choice have dominated the biosocial discourses surrounding BRCA risk for decades, telling women at genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that they are free to choose how (and whether) to deal with their risk. Critics argue that women at genetic risk are, in fact, not free to choose but rather are forced to make particular choices. In Being at Genetic Risk, Kelly Pender argues for a change in the conversation around genetic risk that focuses less on choice and more on care.Being at Genetic Risk offers a new set of conceptual starting points for understanding what is at stake with a BRCA diagnosis and what the focus on choice obstructs from view. Through a praxiographic reading of the medical practices associated with BRCA risk, Pender’s analysis shows that genetic risk is not just something BRCA+ women know, but also something that they do. It is through this doing that genetic cancer risk becomes a reality in their lives, one that we can explain but not one that we can explain away.Well researched and thoughtfully argued, Being at Genetic Risk will be welcomed by scholars of rhetoric and communication, particularly those who work in the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine, as well as scholars in allied fields who study the social, ethical, and political implications of genetic medicine. Pender’s insight will also be of interest to organizations that advocate for those at genetic risk of breast and ovarian cancers.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Following Mol’s Lead: From Diabetes to BRCA Risk -- 2 From Ideology to Governmentality: A Constructivist View of Genetic Risk -- 3 Making Risk Real: A Praxiographic Inquiry into Being BRCA+ -- 4 Toward a Rhetoric of Care for the At Risk -- Conclusion: Invention in RSTM: Another Moderate Response to the Two-World Problem -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Rhetorics of choice have dominated the biosocial discourses surrounding BRCA risk for decades, telling women at genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that they are free to choose how (and whether) to deal with their risk. Critics argue that women at genetic risk are, in fact, not free to choose but rather are forced to make particular choices. In Being at Genetic Risk, Kelly Pender argues for a change in the conversation around genetic risk that focuses less on choice and more on care.Being at Genetic Risk offers a new set of conceptual starting points for understanding what is at stake with a BRCA diagnosis and what the focus on choice obstructs from view. Through a praxiographic reading of the medical practices associated with BRCA risk, Pender’s analysis shows that genetic risk is not just something BRCA+ women know, but also something that they do. It is through this doing that genetic cancer risk becomes a reality in their lives, one that we can explain but not one that we can explain away.Well researched and thoughtfully argued, Being at Genetic Risk will be welcomed by scholars of rhetoric and communication, particularly those who work in the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine, as well as scholars in allied fields who study the social, ethical, and political implications of genetic medicine. Pender’s insight will also be of interest to organizations that advocate for those at genetic risk of breast and ovarian cancers.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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