Being at Genetic Risk by Kelly Pender
Advocates a conversation around the genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that focuses less on choice and more on care. Offers a new set of conceptual starting points for understanding what is at stake with a BRCA diagnosis and what the focus on choice obstructs from view.“This book is groundbreaking, not only for scholars interested in women’s health, or health or science studies more generally, but also for rhetorical scholars and (post)humanists”
—Celeste M. Condit, author of Angry Public Rhetorics: Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11
“Being at Genetic Risk delves deeply into Mol’s concept of ‘logic of care’; set in the context of the risk of a genetic disease (rather than focusing on patients living with a disease or a difficult-to-define symptom), this adds in significant and interesting ways to the conversation.”
—Jodie Nicotra, University of Idaho
“Kelly Pender’s Being at Genetic Risk: Toward a Rhetoric of Care makes an important contribution to scholarship in the rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM); rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine (RSTM); and rhetoric more broadly. The book does so by taking on the important task of questioning critiques ‘debunking’ social creations that dupe naïve people into believing their reality.”
—Cathryn Molloy Rhetoric Review
Kelly Pender is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Technē, from Neoclassicism to Postmodernism: Understanding Writing as a Useful, Teachable Art.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271082110 |
| ISBN 10 | 0271082119 |
| Title | Being at Genetic Risk |
| Author | Kelly Pender |
| Series | Rsa Series In Transdisciplinary Rhetoric |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2022-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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