Title Risks in the making : travels in life insurance and genetics / Ine van Hoyweghen

Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (197 pages)) Series Care & welfare Care & welfare. Contents Risky Business: The Collision of Genetics and Life Insurance -- "Genetics Is Not The Issue": Insurers on Genetics and Life Insurance -- Risky Bodies Stage I: Constituting the Underwriting Practice -- Risky Bodies Stage II: Governing by Numbers -- Risky Bodies Stage III: The Art of Underwriting -- Risky Bodies Future Stage? Risk Carriers and Risk Takers -- Towards Experimental Learning Summary Opens up an important examination of risk selection procedures in insurance Analysis wetenschap algemeen popular science Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-191) and index Notes English Print version record; resource not viewed Subject Discrimination in insurance. Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects Medical genetics -- Social aspects Society and social sciences. Society and culture: general. Ethical issues and debates. Mathematics and science. Science: general issues. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Genetic. MEDICAL -- Genetics. Discrimination in insurance Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects Medical genetics -- Social aspects Form Electronic book LC no. 2020718131 ISBN 9781429472685 1429472685 1281979112 9781281979117 9786611979119 6611979115 9048503426 9789048503421

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