Predictive genetic testing and the making of the pre-symptomatic person: Prognostic moralities amongst Huntington's-affected families

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This paper identifies the emergence of new prognostic categories of genetic health information in contemporary predictive biomedicine. Arguing that pre-emptive genetic foreknowledge is linked intimately to the creation of a new classificatory order of "pre-symptomatic" persons, the paper discusses how the "prophetic" revelations of predictive testing technologies transform ordinary persons into moral...

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