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Following the early constructivist studies on science and in the footsteps of the Foucauldian tradition, an increasing number of sociologists, historians and anthropologists have looked into medicine, questioning the nature of scientific knowledge in medical practice and its normalizing gaze. More recently, moving beyond the body, biologists have focused on the DNA code to try to find “the nature of life”. Falling short of its promises, the Human Genome Project did not provide the secret of life, but revealed new unknowns and new possibilities of action and manipulation of the genetic code.
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David Collingridge is a physician, known for his The Social Control of Technology, St. Martin’s Press, New York 1980.
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Gobo, G., Marcheselli, V. (2022). Medicine and Biotechnologies. In: Science, Technology and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08306-8_13
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