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This volume presents the collective adventure of Dingdingdong, the Institute for the Co-production of Knowledge about Huntington's Disease, founded in 2012 between Paris and Brussels. Katrin Solhdju's Testing Knowledge: Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis pursues the question of taming the violence of the new species of medical foreknowledge represented by genetic testing. Adopting historical and epistemological perspectives on diagnostic situations, including observations from anthropological field research, speculative storytelling, and ancient oracles, Testing Knowledge proposes a new ecology…
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1 edition- Paperback · English · 2021Punctum Books · 194 pages · 9781953035455
Medical sciencesHuntington's diseaseDiagnosisHuntington DiseaseSciences de la santéChorée de HuntingtonHealth sciencesDingdingdong (Health institute)