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Notes

  1. From an STS perspective, we recognise that the ‘discovery’ of the BRCA genes is part of a process of a social construction (Latour 2004a).

  2. See for instance ‘Breast Cancer Gene-free Baby’ 9 January 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7819651.stm.

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The authors thank the editors of BioSocieties for agreeing to publish this special section on BRCA medicine and research. We are particularly grateful to Chloe Silverman for her help in this regard.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University College London, 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H OBW, UK

    Sahra Gibbon & Eirini Kampriani

  2. Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA

    Galen Joseph

  3. Södertörn University, Södertörns högskola, 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden

    Ute Kalender

  4. Cancer Programme, Kings College London, 15 St Thomas Street, SE1 9RY, UK

    Jessica Mozersky

  5. Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Postfach 10 10 07, D-40001, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Andrea zur Nieden

  6. DFG Graduate School “Topology of Technology”, Darmstadt University of Technology, 5 Karolinenplatz, D-64298, Darmstadt, Germany

    Sonja Palfner

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Gibbon, S., Joseph, G., Kalender, U. et al. Special section: Perspectives on globalising genomics: The case of ‘BRCA’ breast cancer research and medical practice. BioSocieties 5, 407–414 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2010.36

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