Biosocieties

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Ambiguous Mutations: Breast Cancer Genetics and the Quest for Meaningful Molecular Medicine Review of Sahra Gibbon’s Breast cancer genes and the gendering of knowledge: Science and citizenship in the cultural context of the ‘new’ genetics and Shobita Parthasarathy’s Building genetic medicine: Breast cancer, technology, and the comparative politics of health care

Karen-Sue Taussiga1

a1 Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center, 301 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA E-mail: taussig@umn.edu

Karen-Sue Taussig holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Anthropology and Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Her work focuses on the production of knowledge in molecular biology and the ways people encounter, learn about and engage such knowledge and its associated technologies.