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Researcher Name: Christine Hauskeller Project Start Date: 01.04.2004 Project End Date: 30.09.2012 Contact Details: Homepage: Christine Hauskeller Email: Christine Hauskeller Funder: Background: Announcements of what the Human Genome Sequencing Project would deliver claimed that it would tell us what is special about humans and what makes each of us unique. This self-understanding of genomic knowledge was followed in the ethical and social debates accompanying genetics since Asilomar and justified the exceptional treatment of genomic science in regulation and public discourse. Aims and Objectives: Research Methods: Key Findings: The investigation of the self-representations of genomics in public declarations of aims and function identified the major role of genomics as the assurance of the identity of the species and of its members including the marking of social status of individuals. The ethical discussions amongst experts and in public present a similar picture – traits often are taken as markers for a person and the genome seems to define who and what one is. Mapping the actual social uses of genomic knowledge and technologies leads to findings supporting the above interpretation. Social practices involving genes or the genome as a word, a concept or an object focus on its potential to establish what ‘one’ is. The borders of what is considered to be human and the traits of individual representatives of humans are negotiated and established in the currency of Genomics. In a catch phrase: In its social reality, genomics is all about human identity. Wider implications for policy: Project Update: Publications: Hauskeller, C., 'Genes, Genomes and Identity. Projections on Matter', New Genetics and Society, 23, 3, 2004, pp. 285-299. Hauskeller, C., Human Genomics as Identity Politics (opens as pdf),* * This work was awarded the Young Scholar Award from the Centre for Ethics & Public Life at Cornell University, NY, in 2006. The prizewinning manuscript is part of the book in progress, Genomics and the Politics of Human Identity. Hauskeller, C., 'The re-making of genetic identity and why it should not be trusted', in Photo-ID: Photographers and Scientists explore identity, Norwich: Norfolk Contemporary Art Society, 2009, pp. 37-49. External Links: Further information: Egenis and the UK Genomics Forum in Edinburgh collaborated with Cesagen and Innogen to organize a series of workshops from 2007 to 2009 focusing on diverse aspects of this overarching theme.
Homepage: Christine Hauskeller
Email: Christine Hauskeller
Announcements of what the Human Genome Sequencing Project would deliver claimed that it would tell us what is special about humans and what makes each of us unique. This self-understanding of genomic knowledge was followed in the ethical and social debates accompanying genetics since Asilomar and justified the exceptional treatment of genomic science in regulation and public discourse.
The investigation of the self-representations of genomics in public declarations of aims and function identified the major role of genomics as the assurance of the identity of the species and of its members including the marking of social status of individuals. The ethical discussions amongst experts and in public present a similar picture – traits often are taken as markers for a person and the genome seems to define who and what one is.
Mapping the actual social uses of genomic knowledge and technologies leads to findings supporting the above interpretation. Social practices involving genes or the genome as a word, a concept or an object focus on its potential to establish what ‘one’ is. The borders of what is considered to be human and the traits of individual representatives of humans are negotiated and established in the currency of Genomics.
In a catch phrase: In its social reality, genomics is all about human identity.
Hauskeller, C., 'Genes, Genomes and Identity. Projections on Matter', New Genetics and Society, 23, 3, 2004, pp. 285-299.
Hauskeller, C., Human Genomics as Identity Politics (opens as pdf),* * This work was awarded the Young Scholar Award from the Centre for Ethics & Public Life at Cornell University, NY, in 2006. The prizewinning manuscript is part of the book in progress, Genomics and the Politics of Human Identity.
Hauskeller, C., 'The re-making of genetic identity and why it should not be trusted', in Photo-ID: Photographers and Scientists explore identity, Norwich: Norfolk Contemporary Art Society, 2009, pp. 37-49.
Egenis and the UK Genomics Forum in Edinburgh collaborated with Cesagen and Innogen to organize a series of workshops from 2007 to 2009 focusing on diverse aspects of this overarching theme.
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