Abstract

The breadth of sociological inquiries into medical genetic science is as varied as the social and technological settings it explores. These inquiries encompass experiences as diverse as lay engagement with prenatal genetic testing, reproductive technologies and biobanking, and in‐depth laboratory ethnographies about the making of population categories for medical genetics. Therefore it is just fair to state that the field of medical sociology and genetics is vast and constantly expanding. Despite the diversity of the research done on genetics and its manifold medical applications, social scientists around the globe share preoccupations relating to the growing geneticization or racialization of biomedical endeavors aimed at tackling disease.

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