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Daniel Navon received his undergraduate MA in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and both his MA and PhD in Sociology from Columbia University. His primary research areas encompass the sociology of science and knowledge (STS), comparative-historical sociology, social theory, and medical sociology, employing qualitative methods. Navon's significant book project, Mobilizing Mutations, utilizes comparative-historical methods and fieldwork to examine how genetics is reshaping medical classifications and patient identities. He indicates that the discovery of genetic mutations has resulted in the delineation of new disease categories, revealing a lack of clinical coherence. His work focuses on how mutations are increasingly mobilized by experts and advocates to create new forms of illness, thus affecting sites of biomedical knowledge production. This book reflects on the practice of 'genomic designation' as crucial to understanding human differences and as a strategic research site addressing wider issues at the intersection of biomedical sciences and society. Selected publications include works on the realignment of disciplines in postgenomic medicine and the intersection of genomic and psychiatric classifications.
University of California, San Diego • La Jolla, CA
Serving as an Associate Professor and directing graduate studies in the Sociology Department.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).