Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge

1. Introduction
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Part I. Clinical Breast Cancer Genetics: Patients, Practitioners and Predictive Medicine

2. The Enrolment of ‘Patients’: Visibility, Voice and Breast Cancer Activism
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3. Technologies of the Clinic: Tools, Tests and Explanatory Strategies
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4. Constructing Patienthood: The ‘Care’ of Predictive Medicine and Female Nurturance
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5. Diviners and Pastoral Keepers: Working in Clinical Breast Cancer Genetics
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Part II. A Breast Cancer Research Charity: Science, Activism and the Quest for Knowledge

6. The Alchemy of Loss and Hope: Fundraising as Memorialisation
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7. Between Geno-hype and the Post-Genomic: The Management of Science and Ethics
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8. Scientists and the Making of Genomics as Monuments for the Living
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9. Conclusion
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Keywords: Social Sciences, Medical Sociology, Human Genetics, Oncology, Gender Studies, Sociology, general, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics