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Translating genomics: cancer genetics, public health and the making of the (de)molecularised body in Cuba and Brazil

Overview of attention for article published in História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, March 2016
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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Title
Translating genomics: cancer genetics, public health and the making of the (de)molecularised body in Cuba and Brazil
Published in
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, March 2016
DOI 10.1590/s0104-59702016000100007
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Sahra Gibbon

Abstract

This article examines how cancer genetics has emerged as a focus for research and healthcare in Cuba and Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken in community genetics clinics and cancer genetics services, the article examines how the knowledge and technologies associated with this novel area of healthcare are translated and put to work by researchers, health professionals, patients and their families in these two contexts. It illuminates the comparative similarities and differences in how cancer genetics is emerging in relation to transnational research priorities, the history and contemporary politics of public health and embodied vulnerability to cancer that reconfigures the scope and meaning of genomics as "personalised" medicine.

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Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 December 2016.
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#1,989,721
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#39
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#31,449
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Outputs of similar age from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#3
of 26 outputs
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