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Author Pender, Kelly, 1974- author.

Title Being at genetic risk : toward a rhetoric of care / Kelly Pender.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (x, 174 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.
Summary "Advocates 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"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Following Mol's lead : from diabetes to BRCA risk -- From ideology to governmentality : a constructivist view of genetic risk -- Making risk real : a praxiographic inquiry into being BRCA+ -- Toward a rhetoric of care for the at risk -- Conclusion : invention in RSTM: another moderate response to the two-world problem.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject BRCA genes.
BRCA genes.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Medical care.
Breast -- Cancer -- Patients.
Medical care.
Ovaries -- Cancer -- Patients -- Medical care.
Ovaries -- Cancer -- Patients.
Genetic screening.
Genetic screening.
Rhetoric.
Rhetoric.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Breast.
Other Form: Print version: Pender, Kelly, 1974- Being at genetic risk. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018] 9780271082103 (DLC) 2018030803 (OCoLC)1034621758
ISBN 9780271082103 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0271082100 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780271083025 (electronic book)
0271083026 (electronic book)