TY - BOOK ID - 210657 TI - The Moral, Social, and Commercial Imperatives of Genetic Testing and Screening : The Australian Case PY - 2006 VL - v. 30 SN - 1280935669 9786610935666 1402046197 1402046189 9048171547 PB - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Genetic screening KW - Human chromosome abnormalities KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Economic aspects KW - Diagnosis KW - Human chromosomes KW - Chromosome abnormalities KW - Genetic disorders KW - Medical screening KW - Abnormalities KW - Medicine. KW - Ethics. KW - Philosophy, modern. KW - Criminal Law. KW - Biomedicine general. KW - Modern Philosophy. KW - Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law. KW - Crime KW - Crimes and misdemeanors KW - Criminals KW - Law, Criminal KW - Penal codes KW - Penal law KW - Pleas of the crown KW - Public law KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Criminal procedure KW - Modern philosophy KW - Deontology KW - Ethics, Primitive KW - Ethology KW - Moral philosophy KW - Morality KW - Morals KW - Philosophy, Moral KW - Science, Moral KW - Philosophy KW - Values KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Modern philosophy. KW - Criminal law. KW - Biomedicine, general. KW - Health Workforce UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:210657 AB - This is a dynamic book that successfully combines global and local thinking with regard to an emerging technology that will contribute to the expansion of proteomics and pharmacogenomics, the science of tailored healthcare and treatments. Genetic testing and screening will change the way people understand health, diagnostic knowledge, illness but also crime, databases and private information, paternity, and self-knowledge. In addition to giving individuals the opportunity to think differently about their well-being, it installs a new taxonomy in terms of illness, because its probabilistic effects will introduce a new narrative in the health discourse of 21st century society. While in the past people could be classified as being healthy or sick, now, through genetic testing and screening, adults can be classified as being healthy, predisposed to an illness, probably at risk, at risk, or carriers of certain risks. The effects of this taxonomy do not remain confined to the individual who is tested but extends to an entire family, as genetic knowledge is family knowledge. But the technology of genetic testing and screening installs a second dramatic register in the prenatal phase when cells and embryos are tested and subsequently altered in order to hit targets of perfection. However, this technology can also be seen as a strategy for the acquisition of new knowledge about oneself, as it instigates a different attitude towards ourselves in a scenario in which the notion of life as a singular noun is seriously questioned by cultural practices that make it necessary to speak of forms of life. The complexity of the Self resulting from this epistemological shift evoke the ancient Greco-roman practices of the care of the self leading to self-knowledge. Genetic testing and screening could therefore be understood as a form of self-quest, and attempt to discover what we are beyond our wishes and desires - beyond what we would like to be. ER -