The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue

Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 91-103

  Pálsson, Gísli ^a,b   Rabinow, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogenetic project; Biomedicine; Genetic information; Human genome; Multifactorial disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889266232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696569.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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23. An extended discussion of the Icelandic debate is presented elsewhere; see Pálsson and HarDardóttir, ''For Whom the Cell Tolls.''
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