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- Title
Genetic Essentialism and Social Warranting.
- Authors
Halverson, Colin M. E.
- Abstract
Genetic essentialism is the notion that genes can reveal to us the core of what it means to be humans and individuals, that our genes are the ultimate source of who we are and who we have been and will be. A recent collection of articles in a special issue of the Hastings Center Report describes the current standing of this term as embattled and potentially oversold but not necessarily without merit. This article highlights particularly valuable insights from the special issue and provides a novel insight into the movement of genetic essentialist attitudes into historically separate domains of medical knowledge-making, or the "social warranting" of genetic epistemology. More research into the role of medical genetics in transforming other medical epistemologies is needed.
- Subjects
HASTINGS Center; MEDICAL genetics; ESSENTIALISM (Philosophy); THEORY of knowledge; MEDICAL research
- Publication
Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, 2022, Vol 65, Issue 3, p396
- ISSN
0031-5982
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/pbm.2022.0033