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Biomedical Knowledge
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Collective Memory Work
Contemporary Society
Dad Died
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ethical issues genetics
family health communication
genetic component
Genetic Condition
Genetic Counselling
Genetic Medicine
genetic risk family decision making
Genetic Risk Information
Genetic Special Nurse
genetic technologies
Genetics Professionals
Genetics Services
Hapsburg Jaw
inherited disease disclosure
kinship studies
Medical Genetics
Mitochondrial DNA Molecule
Mitochondrial DNA Mutation
Molecular Test Result
PGD
Polycystic Kidney
Potential Health Status
Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis
Predict Disease Onset
Predictive Genetic Testing
qualitative health research
Retrospective Surveillance
risky relations
social impact genomics
social relations
sociologists
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781845201791
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Increasingly more conditions are now being identified as having a genetic component, and controversial new genetic technologies potentially have major consequences for social relations and self-identity. How do family members respond to the information that they have a genetically transmitted disease or condition? How do they communicate (or not communicate) about their shared heritage? How do they decide who to tell and who not to tell within their family? Richly illustrated with the real experiences of individuals and families, Risky Relations is essential reading for anthropologists and sociologists of health and medicine, specialists in family and kinship, and health professionals concerned with the treatment and counselling of clients with genetic conditions. The lived impact of genetic technology on understanding within families with genetic conditions has never been systematically explored. This book fills a major gap by placing ethical, medical and social debates surrounding this charged issue firmly in context.
Katie Featherstone is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Social and Economic Aspects of Genomics, Cardiff University.Aditya Bharadwaj is a Research Associate in the Centre for Social and Economic Aspects of Genomics, Cardiff University.Angus Clarke is Professor and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics at the University of Wales College of Medicine.Paul Atkinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University, and Associate Director of the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Aspects of Genomics.
