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Managing Trust and Risk in New Biotechnologies: The Case of Population Genome Project and Organ Transplantation in Latvia

Aivita Putnina

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Coping (psychology)education.field_of_studymedicine.medical_specialtybusiness.industryDiscourse analysiseducationEnvironmental resource managementPopulationLatvianGenome projectPublic relationslanguage.human_languageOrgan transplantationPolitical scienceHealth carelanguageKinshipmedicinebusinesseducationhealth care economics and organizations

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The paper analyses the application of the two biotechnologies – organ transplantation and population genome project in Latvian society. The case is based on 16 interviews with doctors, scientists, patients and donors and media texts discourse analysis. The notions of trust and risk emerge as a counterpart of coping with the challenges the technologies pose to the “traditional” relations between actors and concepts involved – organs, genes, illness, patients, doctors, hospital units and science. New biotechnologies erode previously stable categories and relationships between the notions and experiences of illness/ health, individual/collective, science/society, nature/culture, gift/market and spreading the risk and trust considerations outside the borders of science and health care system. Technologies not only create but also demand the changes in understanding science, illness, body, kinship and doctor-patient relationship as the condition for the technology accommodation and development.

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2011-07-25
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9784-2_6