Le temps, l'espace en génétique. Intervention médicale et géographie sociale du gène

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Pascale Bourret: Time and Space in Genetics. Medical Acts and the Social Geography of the Gène. Prenatal diagnosis, which has developed over the last fifteen years, is radically at odds with traditional medical practice in terms of its objectives and the medical acts to which it gives rise. For it is a practice which is predictive in nature. Because it can, under no circumstance, unlike classical diagnosis, involve therapy, it leads to the practice of selection of the fœtus. The article is concerned to give an account of the medical acts, the technologies and the knowledge associated with this new technique, ail of which are necessarily social in import, given the impossibility of separating medical from social considérations in this field. The new forms of social engineering which médical genetics opens up are analysed as being the production of a social geography where what is at stake is the production, by means of the body which gives it its tangible shape, of the very quality of life.

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