Have we seen the geneticisation of society? Expectations and evidence.

摘要: Abby Lippman's geneticisation thesis, of the early 1990s, argued and anticipated that with rise genetics, increasing areas social health related activities would come to be understood defined in genetic terms leading major changes society, medicine care. We review considerable literature on consider how concept stands both theoretically empirically across scientific, clinical, popular lay discourse practice. Social science scholarship indicates relatively little original claim thesis has been realised, highlighting development more complex dynamic accounts disease scientific complexity relationships between bioscientific, clinical understandings. This represents a shift understandings processes sociotechnical change, which have moved from rather simplistic linear models an appreciation categories as multiply understood. Despite these shifts, we argue imaginary persists, plays performative role driving investments new gene-based developments. Understanding enduring power this its consequences remains key task for sciences, one treats ongoing expectations predictions sceptical yet open way.