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SUMMARY:&quot\;Personal genomics\, expectations and democracy&quot\; - Dr 
 Adam Hedgecoe
DTSTART:20081110T190000Z
DTEND:20081110T203000Z
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CONTACT:Francis Rowland
DESCRIPTION:Adam Hedgecoe is a Sociologist of science and technology focus
 ing on the biomedical sciences. For over ten years he has researched the i
 mpact of genetic testing on professional practise in a range of diseases s
 uch as Cystic Fibrosis\, Diabetes\, and Schizophrenia\, as well as the pha
 rmacogenetics of Alzheimer's disease and breast cancer (about which he has
  written aprize winning book). He has a particular interest in the sociolo
 gy of expectations\, looking at how hopes and fears about new technologies
  feed back into their development and the growth of ethical and regulatory
  debates. More recently\, he has looked at the development of ethics as a 
 system of governance in the biomedical sciences\, leading a three-year Eur
 opean Commission funded project carrying out a comparative ethnography on 
 research ethics committees in four European countries. He has a Ph.D. from
  the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College Lo
 ndon\, and has previously worked for the technology assessment units of bo
 th the European and British Parliaments.
LOCATION:Pharmacology Lecture Theatre\, Department of Pharmacology\, Tenni
 s Court Road
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