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The Moral Heart of Genomics and the Failures of Liberalism - Jenny Reardon, The Postgenomic Condition. Ethics, Justice & Knowledge after the Genome (Chicago/London, The University of Chicago Press, 2017)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2019

Michel Dubois*
Affiliation:
Epidapo, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and George Washington University [Michel.DUBOIS@cnrs.fr]
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References

1 As one of the scientists interviewed by Reardon states: “generally our philosophy is to gather a lot of data and try and let the data speak for itself, and find out what stories there are inside” [142].

2 See for instance A. Bonaccorsi, 2008, “Search regimes and the industrial dynamics of science”, Minerva, vol. 46; S. Hilgartner, 2017, Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution, Cambridge Mass., MIT Press.

3 See also J. Reardon, 2001, “The Human Genome Diversity Project: A Case Study in Coproduction,” Social Studies of Science, 31/3: 357-388.

4 B. Joerges and T. Shinn, eds, 2001, Instrumentation. Between Science, State and Industry (Dordrecht/London/Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers).

5 R.B. Ramoni et al., 2017, “The Undiagnosed Diseases Network: Accelerating Discovery about Health and Disease”, The American Journal of Human Genetics, 100(2): 185-192.

6 See M. Dubois, E. Schultz, eds, 2019, “Special issue on the Office parlementaire d’évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques”, Histoire de la recherche contemporaine, 1.

7 D. Boy, Kamel D. Donnet and P. Roqueplo, 2000, “Un exemple de démocratie participative: la ‘conférence de citoyens’ sur les organismes génétiquement modifiés”, Revue française de science politique, 50, 4-5: 779-810.