Reading Questions

Singer/Baer/Long/Pavlotski

Chapter 8

People, Places, Concepts and Questions

People, Places and Concepts

Biotechnology

Bioethics

Social/cultural construction of scientific knowledge

Donna Haraway

“Nature”/”natural”

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)

Biocapital

New reproductive technologies (NRT)

Social, genetic and gestational relatedness

Commodification of the body

Biobanks

Medical imaginary

Biotechnical embrace

Social life of medicine

Human growth hormone (HGH)

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Down syndrome

CRISPR

“Out of Africa” hypothesis

Personalized treatment of disease

Questions

1. What is biocapital, and how is changing the ways we understand health and health-care?

2. Do you think that new reproductive technologies are changing that ways we understand kinship and the family?

3. How are advances in molecular genetics affecting the ways we define and treat illness?