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Hedgecoe, Adam (2003) Expansion and uncertainty: cystic fibrosis, classification and genetics. Sociology of Health and Illness, 25 (1). pp. 50-70. ISSN 0141-9889
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This paper presents an empirical examination of geneticization, the process where genetic explanations gain ascendancy in medical and social discourse. By focusing on Cystic Fibrosis (CF), this study shows how genetic explanations play a role in the reclassification of Cystic Fibrosis. One result of this geneticization is a nosological expansion, where the boundaries of the disease expand to include a certain form of male infertility. In addition this paper highlights the uncertainty in the CF classification system that results from the use of genetic explanations
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | genetics, ethics, cystic fibrosis |
| Schools and Departments: | School of Global Studies > Anthropology School of Law, Politics and Sociology > Sociology |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Depositing User: | Chris Keene |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jun 2012 09:11 |
| URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1316 |
| Google Scholar: | 29 Citations |