In recent decades, insurance companies, scientists, and public officials have debated the potential use of genetic testing in insurance decisions. With Risks in the Making, Ine van Hoyweghen alters the terms of the debate, moving it from abstract, theoretical grounds to the question of how insurance companies actually work. Through an empirical ethnographic study of life insurance in Belgium, van Hoyweghen reveals fascinating and important details about insurance practices and risk management, underscoring the diversity of insurance markets, underwriting practices, and strategies.
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Ine van Hoyweghen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Maastricht.
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medical underwriting department, statistical risk categories, substandard rate, chief underwriter, underwriting strategies, risk trajectory, medical risk assessment, underwriting strategy, insurance logic, hybrid forums, actuarial research, underwriting policy, assemblage work, standard lab test, actuarial fairness, normative voice, genetic essentialism, predictive medicine, actuarial profession, genetic underclass, experience statistics, one underwriter, underwriting practice, medical questionnaire, ooo euros Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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