Disposition and Determinism – Genetic Diagnostics in Risk Society
- 1 November 2004
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Review
- Vol. 52 (4), 550-566
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2004.00495.x
Abstract
This article investigates the relationship between genetic determinism and the discourse of risk by making use of an elaboration of the concept of governmentality developed by Michel Foucault. After a short outline of the theoretical profile of the employed risk analysis, the main part of the text distinguishes three core level of analysis. With a view to illustrating several aspects of a ‘genetic governmentality’ the increasing social impact of genetic information is examined from the angle of truth programs, power strategies and technologies of the self.Keywords
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