Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices : Transnational Perspectives in the Time of BRCA (Hardcover)

Foreword by Rayna Rapp  Introduction by Sahra Gibbon, Galen Joseph, Jessica Mozersky, Andrea zur Nieden, Sonja Palfner  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 by Andrea zur Nieden  2. Mapping Jewish Identities: Migratory Histories and the Transnational Re-Framing of the ‘Ashkenazi BRCA Mutations’ in the UK and Brazil by Jessica Mozersky and Sahra Gibbon  3. Genetics to the People: BRCA as Public Health and the Dissemination of Cancer Risk Knowledge by Galen Joseph  Middleword I: Historicizing Biomedicine ? Toward a History of the Present of BRCA by Martina Schlunder  Section II: Risk, Personhood and Subjectivity  4. Situating Breast Cancer Risk in Urban India: Gender, Temporality and Social Change by Alison Macdonald  5. Gender Trouble? Queering the Medical Normativity of BRCA Femininities by Britte Pelters  6. It Takes a Particular World to Produce and Enact BRCA Testing: The US had It, Italy had Another by Deborah R. Gordon  Middleword II: Pushing the boundaries by Nina Hallowell  Section III: Shifting Terrains of BRCA Knowledge and Practices  7. "Empowerment" and the Rendering of Biocapital in Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genomics by Sandra Soo-Jin Lee  8. The BRCA Patent Controversies: An International Review of Patent Disputes by Esther van Zimmeren, Dianne Nicol, E. Richard Gold, Julia Carbone, Subhashini Chandrasekharan, A. Lane Baldwin, Robert Cook-Deegan  9. From BRCA to BRCAness: Tales of translational research by Pascale Bourret, Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio  10. BRCA Interrupted: Reproductive Technologies and the Reiteration-Reformulation of Cancer Legacies by Lisa Rubin and Inmaculada de Melo-Martin.  Afterword: Studying BRCA performativity. Re-calibrations by and of the social sciences by Susanne Bauer