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Author Hoyweghen, Ine van.

Title Risks in the making : travels in life insurance and genetics / Ine van Hoyweghen.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (198 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Care & Welfare
Care & welfare.
Contents I. Risky business : the collision of genetics and life insurance -- II. "Genetics is not the issue" : insurers on genetics and life insurance -- III. Risky bodies stage 1 : constituting the underwriting practice -- IV. Risky bodies stage 2 : governing by numbers -- V. Risky bodies stage 3 : the art of underwriting -- VI. Risky bodies future stage? : risk carriers and risk takers -- VII. Towards experimental learning.
Summary Opens up an important examination of risk selection procedures in insurance.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Medical genetics -- Social aspects.
Medical genetics -- Social aspects.
Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Discrimination in insurance.
Discrimination in insurance.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9789053569276
ISBN 9789048503421 (electronic book)
9048503426 (electronic book)
9789053569276
9053569278