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Margaret Lock
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Latest papers
The contribution of ethnography to epigenomics research: toward a new bio-ethnography for addressing health disparities.
Epigenomics · 2021 · first author
Accounting for variation in and overuse of antibiotics among humans.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2021
The lure of the epigenome.
Lancet (London, England) · 2013 · first author
Latest funding
- $6,340,786
Humans and the Microbiome
BRAIN · 2014 · Co-investigator
- $100,000
The SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
- $78,040
Familial and social ramifications of conceptivelizing genetics as contributory to alzheimer's disease
SSHRC · 2003 · Principal investigator
8 publications.
The contribution of ethnography to epigenomics research: toward a new bio-ethnography for addressing health disparities.
Lock M, Argentieri MA, Shields AE
Accounting for variation in and overuse of antibiotics among humans.
Blaser MJ, Melby MK, Lock M, Nichter M
The lure of the epigenome.
Lock M
The epigenome and nature/nurture reunification: a challenge for anthropology.
Lock M
L'avenir.
Lock M
Postgenomics, uncertain futures, and the familiarization of susceptibility genes.
Chilibeck G, Lock M, Sehdev M
Situating the practice of organ donation in familial, cultural, and political context.
Lock M, Crowley-Makota M
Social, Political, and Epistemological Aspects of Genetics and Genomics
Margaret M. Lock, Susan Cox, Lori d’Agincourt-Canning
Humans and the Microbiome
Principal investigators: Gros, Philippe
Keywords: Central Nervous System; Other
The SSHRC Gold Medal for Achievement in Research
Principal investigators: Lock, Margaret M.
Keywords: medical anthropology; culture and technology; postgenonics and society; enthnographic methods
Familial and social ramifications of conceptivelizing genetics as contributory to alzheimer's disease
Principal investigators: Lock, Margaret Marion
Keywords: genetic testing; complex disease; alzheimer's disease; risk assessment; psychosocial effects; self and subjectivity
The New Genetics and the reinvention of normal
Principal investigators: Lock, Margaret
Keywords: culture; technology; medical anthropology; genetics; identity; risk
Modernité, souffrance sociale et psychopathologie
Principal investigators: Bibeau, Gilles
Enhancement technologies and human identity
Principal investigators: Elliott, Bruce
Keywords: Enhancement; cosmetic psychopharm; genetics; aging; antidepressants; gender assignment; menopause; culture; ethics; psychiatric
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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