Genomic designation: How genetics can delineate new, phenotypically diffuse medical categories

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-226

  Navon, Daniel ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

autism; biosociality; geneticization; genetics; genomic designation; genomics; identity; molecular gaze

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; DOWN SYNDROME; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; SOCIOLOGY; SYNDROME;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; DOWN SYNDROME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; SYNDROME;

EID: 79953119709     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312710391923     Document Type: Article

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