Dangerous Diagnostics

The Social Power of Biological Information

Dorothy Nelkin, Laurence Tancredi (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

1994
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-57129-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize and ultimately control individuals. The ethical, social and legal implications of technologies that can lead to new forms of discrimination are also included.

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A study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize and ultimately control individuals. Nelkin and Tancredi explore the ethical, social and legal implications of technologies that can lead to new forms of discrimination in the name of standardized, objective measurements. They caution against the creation of an underclass deemed unemployable, untrainable or uninsurable by such diagnostic tests.

Autor

Dorothy Nelkin is professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Cornell University. She is the author of The Creation Controversy, Controversy: Politics of Technical Decisions, and Science as Intellectual Property. Michael S. Brown is research associate at the Center for the Study of Drug Development at Tufts University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.1994
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 14 x 20 mm
• Gewicht: 255 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-226-57129-7 / 0226571297
• ISBN-13: 978-0-226-57129-4 / 9780226571294
• Zustand: Neuware