Reading maps of the genes: interpreting the spatiality of genetic knowledge.

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Genetics has become the pre-eminent interpretation of the body and health and illness. This paper engages with a central technique and metaphor of the new genetics-gene mapping. Through an exploration of the process of gene mapping, the paper argues that the genetic material of the body is spatialised and transformed into a knowable and manipulable entity. Three interpretations of this spatial transformation of...

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