Michael Arribas Ayllon: 3 books

Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Book cover of Genetic Testing

Genetic Testing

Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame

by Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Srikant Sarangi, Angus Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health benefits to prospective individuals and their families it also raises complex ethical and moral dilemmas for families...
Book cover of Psychiatric Genetics

Psychiatric Genetics

From Hereditary Madness to Big Biology

by Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Andrew Bartlett, Jamie Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019

Psychiatric genetics has become ‘Big Biology’. This may come as a surprising development to those familiar with its controversial history. From eugenic origins and contentious twin studies to a global network of laboratories employing high-throughput genetic and genomic technologies, biological...
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