Description
Book SynopsisAdvocates a conversation around the genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that focuses less on choice and more on care. Offers a new set of conceptual starting points for understanding what is at stake with a BRCA diagnosis and what the focus on choice obstructs from view.
Trade Review“This book is groundbreaking, not only for scholars interested in women’s health, or health or science studies more generally, but also for rhetorical scholars and (post)humanists.”
—Celeste M. Condit,author of Angry Public Rhetorics: Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11
“Being at Genetic Risk delves deeply into Mol’s concept of ‘logic of care’; set in the context of the risk of a genetic disease (rather than focusing on patients living with a disease or a difficult-to-define symptom), this adds in significant and interesting ways to the conversation.”
—Jodie Nicotra,University of Idaho
“Kelly Pender’s Being at Genetic Risk: Toward a Rhetoric of Care makes an important contribution to scholarship in the rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM); rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine (RSTM); and rhetoric more broadly. The book does so by taking on the important task of questioning critiques ‘debunking’ social creations that dupe naïve people into believing their reality.”
—Cathryn Molloy Rhetoric Review
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Following Mol’s Lead: From Diabetes to BRCA Risk
2 From Ideology to Governmentality: A Constructivist View of Genetic Risk
3. Making Risk Real: A Praxiographic Inquiry into Being BRCA+
4. Toward a Rhetoric of Care for the At Risk
Conclusion: Invention in RSTM: Another Moderate
Response to the Two-World Problem
Notes
Bibliography
Index
