Mundane Genomics

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This book critically analyses the ongoing, often silent, expansion of genomics throughout society. Genomics has undeniably become an integral part of everyday life for many, albeit in ever-stratified ways, and this routinization process has come with interesting and often unpredicted consequences, interacting with national cultures, regulations, healthcare systems, patients, families, and more. Drawing from STS, anthropology, sociology, and political science, this volume explores multiple case studies across the globe, illustrating how genomics spreads, transforms, and is being transformed, ultimately becoming a routine, almost mundane, part of our daily life. The volume unpacks mundane genomics in five realms – assisted reproduction, genetic predisposition and the clinic, direct-to-consumer testing and the making of identities, forensics, and genomics imaginaries – presenting research that illuminates how genomics is no longer confined to the rhetoric of revolution, but increasingly operates within the contours of the everyday, with noteworthy implications for all the actors involved.

Violeta Argudo-Portal is a Serra Húnter Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Vincenzo Pavone is a scholar in Science and Technology Studies, and the Director of the Institute for Public Goods and Policies (IPP) within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain.

Mauro Turrini is a sociologist of science and medicine at the Institute for Public Goods and Policies (IPP) within the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain, and associated researcher at the Centre for research on medicine, science, health, mental health, and society (CERMES3), France.

Ayo Wahlberg is Professor and Head of Department at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

This book critically analyses the ongoing, often silent, expansion of genomics throughout society. Genomics has undeniably become an integral part of everyday life for many, albeit in ever-stratified ways, and this routinization process has come with interesting and often unpredicted consequences, interacting with national cultures, regulations, healthcare systems, patients, families, and more. Drawing from STS, anthropology, sociology, and political science, this volume explores multiple case studies across the globe, illustrating how genomics spreads, transforms, and is being transformed, ultimately becoming a routine, almost mundane, part of our daily life. The volume unpacks mundane genomics in five realms – assisted reproduction, genetic predisposition and the clinic, direct-to-consumer testing and the making of identities, forensics, and genomics imaginaries – presenting research that illuminates how genomics is no longer confined to the rhetoric of revolution, but increasingly operates within the contours of the everyday, with noteworthy implications for all the actors involved.

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Violeta Argudo-Portal

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“In the late 20th century, the advent of DNA sequencing and of technologies that allowed the manipulation of the hereditary material of the cell was described as the start of a radically new era in biology and medicine. A quarter of a century later, the new approaches, like many other biomedical innovations, were domesticated, normalized, and seamlessly woven into a myriad of mundane activities in the laboratory and the clinics. The collective volume Mundane Genomics follows this highly important, but little-studied process. It investigates the incorporation of DNA-based approaches into testing and treating hereditary diseases, cancer treatment, medically assisted reproduction, search for filiation, forensic science, and numerous other clinical and industrial applications, and follows the often invisible changes produced by the advent of genomics in reshaping notions of selfhood and kinship, and modulating social imagery. The DNA revolution, this volume persuasively shows, did take place, but in very different ways than the ones predicted by its early enthusiastic promoters and its early doomsayers.” (Senior Researcher Ilana Löwy, Centre for Research on Medicine, Science, Health, Mental Health, and Society, CNRS, Paris, France)

“Mundane Genomics makes an overdue and necessary intervention. By foregrounding the everyday over the epochal, this collection compellingly shows how DNA now operates through routinised practices and infrastructures that quietly reshape kinship, care, and subjectivity. With impressive empirical range and conceptual clarity, it reveals genomics as both normalised and contested, while generating new stratifications and ethical blind spots. Refusing both technological determinism and easy critique, the volume renders genomics as a situated, socially entangled practice open to ongoing negotiation. An indispensable and timely guide to the postgenomic condition as lived transformation rather than revolutionary break.” (Professor Sonja van Wichelen, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia)

“30 years ago, the world was transfixed by the life-saving promises of genomic medicine, while worrying about its eugenic potential. Since then, the languages, practices, technologies associated with DNA have become part of our daily lives. This book offers important insights on what happens when the rhetoric of technological revolutions hit reality, enabling us to develop a deeper understanding of the life cycles of emerging technologies. Life after the hype cycle, this volume demonstrates with papers leveraging examples around the world, becomes banal, ethically invisible, de-centered, and routine. This book is an important addition not just to the social studies of genomics, but to the study of science and technology more generally – including the current institutionalization of machine learning and artificial intelligence.” (Professor Shobita Parthasarathy, Professor of Public Policy & Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, USA)

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