Published in Journal of communication disorders
This tutorial provides professionals in communication sciences and disorders with an overview of the molecular basis and parental perceptions of genetic testing as associated with autism. The introduction notes the prominence of genetic testing within present-day medical practices and highlights related limitations and concerns through the lens of ...
Published in Synthese
Medical explanations have often been thought on the model of biological ones and are frequently defined as mechanistic explanations of a biological dysfunction. In this paper, I argue that topological explanations, which have been described in ecology or in cognitive sciences, can also be found in medicine and I discuss the relationships between me...
Published in Social science & medicine (1982)
The concept of geneticization belongs to a style of thinking within the social sciences that refers to wide-ranging processes and consequences of genetic knowledge. Lippman's original use of the term was political, anticipating the onerous consequences of genetic reductionism and determinism, while more recent engagements emphasise the productivity...
Alors qu’il n’existe pas de définition consensuelle du concept de maladie génétique, ce concept s’est progressivement élargi pour désigner des maladies communes, non héréditaires, non mendéliennes et polygéniques, aboutissant à une généticisation des maladies. Pour résoudre ce paradoxe de la génétique médicale contemporaine, les philosophes réfuten...
Published in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
In the contemporary biomedical literature, every disease is considered genetic. This extension of the concept of genetic disease is usually interpreted either in a trivial or genocentrist sense, but it is never taken seriously as the expression of a genetic theory of disease. However, a group of French researchers defend the idea of a genetic theor...
Published in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
Explanatory pluralism is the view that the best form and level of explanation depends on the kind of question one seeks to answer by the explanation, and that in order to answer all questions in the best way possible, we need more than one form and level of explanation. In the first part of this article, we argue that explanatory pluralism holds fo...
Published in Medicine Studies
This article illustrates in which sense genetic determinism is still part of the contemporary interactionist consensus in medicine. Three dimensions of this consensus are discussed: kinds of causes, a continuum of traits ranging from monogenetic diseases to car accidents, and different kinds of determination due to different norms of reaction. On t...
Published in Medicine Studies
Is genetic information different from other types of medical information and is therefore a special treatment required because of its special features? This question has been discussed since the mid-1990s under the label of genetic exceptionalism. This article discusses the essential arguments of the genetic exceptionalism discourse and analyzes th...
Published in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Stimulated by a series of biotechnological developments, human geographers have begun a research engagement with genetic science. Through its transformation of the relationship between nature and society, genetics connects to the core disciplinary concern of geography. Drawing on theories that attempt to bridge the embedded natural–social binary, g...
Published in International Encyclopedia of Public Health
Genetic information differs from basic medical information not only because of its predictive value for disease and behavior but also because the impact of knowledge of an individual's genetic information may extend to family, future generations, and the community. Genomics extends the study of genetic information to the whole genome exacerbating t...
