Deborah R. Gordon

TL;DR: An expanded public resource of genome variants in global populations supports deeper interrogation of genomic variation and its role in human disease, and serves as a step towards a high-resolution map of the landscape of human genetic variation.

TL;DR: The purpose of this article is to present analyses related to the meaning of knowing the patient, and its role in everyday nursing practice.

TL;DR: The biological reductionism by which modern medicine is frequently characterized is more theoretical than actual; in its effects, biomedicine speaks beyond its explicit reductionist reference through implicit ways it teaches us to interpret ourselves, our world, and the rela-tionships between humans, nature, self, and society.

TL;DR: It is the social reality that is dominant here, such that informing a patient of cancer can be tantamount to social death, and nondisclosure is a major mechanism for keeping the “condemned” in this social world, and keeping death, decay, and suffering in the ‘other.

TL;DR: The traditional practice of non-disclosure of cancer diagnoses is located within a larger cultural narrative the authors call "social-embeddeness", a narrative of social unity and hierarchy, of protection from or adaptation to the inevitable necessities of life, in part by using narrative itself to construct a sense of group protection.