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Genetics and citizenship

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Anne Kerr is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York in Britain. Her most recent publication,Genetic Politics: From Eugenics to Genome, was written with Tom Shakespeare (2002). She is currently working on an ESRC-funded project entitled Transformations in Genetic Subjecthood (http://www.york.ac.uk/res/tigs).

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Kerr, A. Genetics and citizenship. Soc 40, 44–50 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02712651

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