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
1.Introduction.- 2.My genes, Your Genes: PGT-A in the Spanish
Reproductive Bioeconomy.- 3.Driving a Ferrari on a country road, or when the
technique becomes a gatekeeper. The case of preimplantation genetic testing
in France.- 4.Promoting Genetic Testing to Prevent non-Genetic Conditions:
PGT-A and Solving the Problem of Twins in US Fertility Clinics.- 5.Genetic
testing in assisted reproduction treatments with donated gametes at the
Spanish legislation.- 6.Cultivating Genetic Sensibility in Danish Lynch
syndrome families.- 7.Cancer Risk Assessment Scores: Personalized Risk and
Mundane.- 8.The Analyst, the Interpreter, and the Intruder: Genomics labor
division and the textures of the Clinical Genetics specialty controversy in
Spain.- 9.I Didnt Want to Buy More Tickets for that Lottery Metaphors for
Genetic Testing in a Qualitative Study about Direct-to-Consumer Genetic
Tests.- 10.Shallow time politics. Entangling ancestors qualities and
present-day identities by way of genomic ancestry testing.- 11.What are we to
each other? The limits of DNA in the search for origins in donor conception.-
12.The Daily Life of DNA: Forensic Genetics and the Administration of Death
and Hope in Mexico.- 13.Infrastructures, power, and filiation: genetic
information and the quest for the stolen babies of Spain.- 14.Forensic
genetics and mass incarceration: widening the net of the DNA databases in
Brazil.- 15.Mundane heroicsa narrative analysis of gene therapy in the
media.- 16.Pathways from Genomic Innovations: Navigating Equity and Access in
Global Healthcare to Avoid Ableism.- 17.Storytelling, facts, and epigenetic
sensibilities: from critique to speculation.- 18.The Mundane and the New
Normal: Translating Microbiome Research to Tell Hong Kongs Story Well.-
19.Conclusion.
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.
