Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge: Science and Citizenship in the Cultural Context of the 'New' Genetics

摘要

[...] research that suggests movement toward a cure, such as the recent "discovery" of the breast cancer gene (BRCA), raises hopes of researchers, cancer patients, their families, and health activists. Findings that five to ten percent of breast cancers are linked to an inherited gene (p. 1) and that a cure promised by genetics may be decades away (p. 193) lead some to question the enormity of the effort and money invested in understanding the workings of the breast cancer gene.