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Genetics and culture: the geneticization thesis.
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- Geneticization in the genomic era: a scoping review of ethical, clinical, and sociocultural transformations.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Review
- The Geneticization of Education and Its Bioethical Implications.Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2024Article
- A contextual integrity approach to genomic information: what bioethics can learn from big data ethics.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2024Article
- Should I Perform Genetic Testing? A Qualitative Look into the Decision Making Considerations of Religious Israeli Undergraduate Students.Journal of genetic counseling · 2016Article
- The Moral Reasoning of Genetic Dilemmas Amongst Jewish Israeli Undergraduate Students with Different Religious Affiliations and Scientific Backgrounds.Journal of genetic counseling · 2016Article
- Converging approaches to understanding early onset familial Alzheimer disease: A First Nation study.SAGE open medicine · 2015Article
- 'In a completely different light'? The role of 'being affected' for the epistemic perspectives and moral attitudes of patients, relatives and lay people.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2008Article
- Geneticization and bioethics: advancing debate and research.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2007Article
- Genetic information in the age of genohype.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2006Article
- The geneticization of diagnostics.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2006Article
- Genetic tools, Kuhnean theoretical shift and the geneticization process.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2006Article
- Ethical boundary work: geneticization, philosophy and the social sciences.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2001Review
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Abstract
The concept of 'geneticization' has been introduced in the scholarly literature to describe the various interlocking and imperceptible mechanisms of interaction between medicine, genetics, society and culture. It is argued that Western culture currently is deeply involved in a process of geneticization. This process implies a redefinition of individuals in terms of DNA codes, a new language to describe and interpret human life and behavior in a genomic vocabulary of codes, blueprints, traits, dispositions, genetic mapping, and a gentechnological approach to disease, health and the body. This article analyses the thesis of 'geneticization'. Explaining the implications of the thesis, and discussing the critical refutations, it is argued that 'geneticization' primarily is a heuristic tool that can help to re-focus the moral debate on the implications of new genetic knowledge towards interpersonal relations, the power of medicine, the cultural context and social constraints, rather than emphasizing issues as personal autonomy and individual rights.
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