Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care

摘要

Building Genetic Medicine offers a persuasive comparative study about the importance of national context in studies of emerging technologies. Focusing on recent innovations in genetic testing, Shobita Parthasarathy compares United States and British responses to breast cancer gene (BRCA) testing within the framework of cancer studies, globalization, policy, practice, and most significantly transnational technology transfers and applications. The "toolkit" she provides offers an innovative way to consider why and how BRCA testing has been adopted and contested in various times and places.