Full Product Details
Author: E. Parsons ,
A. Clarke
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 1st ed. 1997
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.370kg
ISBN: 9781349258840
ISBN 10: 1349258849
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 January 1997
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.
Reviews
'...the book offers a fresh approach and should be welcomed by social scientists, service providers and anyone with a practical interest in the social and cultural implications of genetic counselling.' - Sociology of Health and Illness '...This book...is an exploratory investigation of the role of cultural factors in genetic counselling...The volume will be of interest to clinicians, students and lecturers in both the social and medical sciences, including those who are exploring the links between the culture of science and the science of culture.' - Alison Shaw
'...the book offers a fresh approach and should be welcomed by social scientists, service providers and anyone with a practical interest in the social and cultural implications of genetic counselling.' - Sociology of Health and Illness '...This book...is an exploratory investigation of the role of cultural factors in genetic counselling...The volume will be of interest to clinicians, students and lecturers in both the social and medical sciences, including those who are exploring the links between the culture of science and the science of culture.' - Alison Shaw
'...the book offers a fresh approach and should be welcomed by social scientists, service providers and anyone with a practical interest in the social and cultural implications of genetic counselling.' - Sociology of Health and Illness '...This book...is an exploratory investigation of the role of cultural factors in genetic counselling...The volume will be of interest to clinicians, students and lecturers in both the social and medical sciences, including those who are exploring the links between the culture of science and the science of culture.' - Alison Shaw
Author Information
ANGUS CLARKE is Reader in Clinical Genetics in the Institute of Medical Genetics at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff. He worked in paediatrics for several years and this led him to develop an interest in inherited disorders that affect children. He has studied some of the social and ethical implications of genetic testing, and was chair of the Clinical Genetics Society Working Party on the genetic testing of children. He has edited a book on the ethical and social aspects of genetic counselling Genetic Counselling: Practice and Principles. EVELYN PARSONS, a medical sociologist, is Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing Studies and Research Fellow in the Institute of Medical Genetics at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff. Her publications include papers on the social construction of genetic risk, the psychosocial implications of presymtomatic testing, and the experience of scientists involved in cloning the gene for myotonic dystrophy. Her current research is in newborn screening and familial breast cancer.
