Martin, Aryn E.2012-10-052012-10-052000FES Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Series1702-3548http://hdl.handle.net/10315/18112This paper is an exploration the work of a potent image: the human-instrumental-material work required to produce a karyotype, as well as the work done by the image, both in clinical settings, and as a public emblem of "the human genome". In keeping with theoretical accounts of the visual in science studies, I conduct an ethnographic exploration of the resolution of ambiguous bodies into their genomic portrait. Next, I leave the specific context of the image's production to speculate on the existence of "genome presence", which, much like "fetal presence", relies on public consumption of newly visible objects.enOtherhttp://www.yorku.ca/fes/research/students/outstanding/index.htm