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Science, Truth, and the American Way by Taussig, Karen‐Sue

“…In Trumpism, we find both a disrespect for evidence (e.g., in Russian interference in the election and in climate change) and a disregard for truth (e.g., in…”
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The Anthropology of Potentiality in Biomedicine: An Introduction to Supplement 7 by Taussig, Karen-Sue, Hoeyer, Klaus, Helmreich, Stefan

“…At the beginning of the twenty-first century, potentiality serves as a central concept in the life sciences and in medical practices. This special issue…”
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Introduction: Public Health Genomics—Anthropological Interventions in the Quest for Molecular Medicine by Taussig, Karen-Sue, Gibbon, Sahra Elizabeth

“…We introduce this special issue of Medial Anthropology Quarterly on public health genomics by exploring both the unique contribution of ethnographic…”
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Bovine Abominations: Genetic Culture and Politics in the Netherlands by Taussig, Karen-Sue

“…This article examines how people in the Netherlands attempted to come to terms with the phenomenon of a genetically modified bull, illuminating the levels of…”
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Reconceiving the New World Order: Genes, Reproduction, and the Politics of Regenerative Medicine by Taussig, Karen-Sue

“…Medical Anthropology Reconceiving the New World Order: Genes, Reproduction, and the Politics of Regenerative Medicine Reproduction; genetic testing;…”
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Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science beyond the Two-Culture Divide by Goodman, Alan H, Heath, Deborah, Lindee, M. Susan

“…The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious-or more fraught with paradox-than in the burgeoning realm…”
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Extremities: Thresholds of Human Embodiment by Wolf-Meyer, Matthew, Taussig, Karen-Sue

“…Emergent conditions of life at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century create new opportunities and challenges for medical anthropology. The…”
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Calvinism and chromosomes: Religion, the geographical imaginary, and medical genetics in the Netherlands by Taussig, Karen-Sue

“…Explores how local understandings of social life & religion in the Netherlands shape the development, understanding, & application of knowledge about genetics…”
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The Transplant Imaginary: Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science. Lesley A.Sharp, 2014, Berkeley: University of California Press, 221 pp by Taussig, Karen‐Sue

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What Happened to Social Facts? by Ho, Karen, Cavanaugh, Jillian R.

“…For anthropologists, truth and facts have long been complicated notions, at least since the ethnographic turn. While the editors are deeply troubled by…”
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The Anthropology of Potentiality in Biomedicine by Taussig, Karen-Sue, Hoeyer, Klaus, Helmreich, Stefan

“…At the beginning of the twenty-first century, potentiality serves as a central concept in the life sciences and in medical practices. This special issue of…”
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The anthropology of potentiality in biomedicine: an introduction to supplement 7 by Taussig, Karen-Sue, Hoeyer, Klaus, Helmreich, Stefan

“…At the beginning of the twenty-first century, potentiality serves as a central concept in the life sciences and in medical practices. This special issue of…”
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Introduction by Taussig, Karen-Sue, Gibbon, Sahra Elizabeth

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Introduction by Taussig, Karen‐Sue, Gibbon, Sahra Elizabeth

“…We introduce this special issue of Medial Anthropology Quarterly on public health genomics by exploring both the unique contribution of ethnographic…”
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Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang. Janet Carsten, Durham: Duke University Press, 2019, 256 pp by Taussig, Karen‐Sue

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Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics by Karen-Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, Deborah Heath

“…In 1994, John Wasmuth and his laboratory colleagues published an account of the discovery of FGFR3, the gene for achondroplasia—the most common form of…”
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Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China by Priscilla Song Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. 296 pp by Taussig, Karen‐Sue

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Books Forum by Taussig, Karen-Sue

“…On 11 September this year the New York Times reported that the Connecticut state attorney general's office had issued a subpoena for information from Myriad…”
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Ambiguous Mutations: Breast Cancer Genetics and the Quest for Meaningful Molecular Medicine by Taussig, Karen-Sue

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Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life by Kaushik Sunder Rajan by TAUSSIG, KAREN-SUE

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