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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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2007

Karen-Sue Taussig
Karen-Sue Taussig
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Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center, 301 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA E-mail: taussig@umn.edu
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BioSocieties , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , December 2007 , pp. 456 - 459
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Copyright © London School of Economics and Political Science 2007

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