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Rainville, Sarah.

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Undeniable risks: A critical discourse analysis of the 23andMe website.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Undeniable risks: A critical discourse analysis of the 23andMe website./
Author:	Rainville, Sarah.
Description:	155 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 48-05, page: 2572.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International48-05.
Subject:	Web Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MR58432
ISBN:	9780494584323

Undeniable risks: A critical discourse analysis of the 23andMe website.
Rainville, Sarah.

Undeniable risks: A critical discourse analysis of the 23andMe website. - 155 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 48-05, page: 2572.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University (Canada), 2009.

This thesis attempts to answer the question, what are the implications of translating data from our bodies into data about risk? This thesis presents a critical discourse analysis of the personal genomics web-service 23andMe. It is the author's contention that new information technologies, such as 23andMe, sensationalize risk, particularly risk of genetic disease and undesirable traits, and, in doing so, encourage certain behaviours such as self-surveillance, lifestyle management, and potentially, future genetic intervention and/or manipulation. This argument is contextualized by literature that illustrates the changing nature of the relationship between doctors and patients and the emergence of new claims for authoritative knowledge about bodies and medicine. These new technologies, such as the services provided by 23andMe, have significant implications for the ways we conceive of and know information about ourselves and our bodies.

ISBN: 9780494584323Subjects--Topical Terms:

1026830
Web Studies.

Undeniable risks: A critical discourse analysis of the 23andMe website.
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