Objective
Recent developments in genetics have afforded a language and a means of reconceptualising the origins and nature of social identity. It is argued that European society is undergoing a process of beneficiation, whereby genetic explanation is increasingly used to define significant social identities and relationships of, for example, gender, kinship, race, sexuality and nationality. Yet we know very little empirically about the way in which different European publics make sense of the new genetics and its implications. This project aims to investigate the way in which a range of publics, positioned differently vies a vies genetics (as experts, lay people, professionals, patients etc.) and located differently in terms of nation, understand the 'new genetics' and its social and cultural implications. A series of specific case studies will be augmented by historical analysis and grounded in national legislative frameworks.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
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Call for proposal
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M13 9PL MANCHESTER
United Kingdom