Overview
The first comprehensive attempt to explore the issues raised by genetic counselling across cultures. It will be of interest to health professionals and to students and lecturers in the social, behavioural and political sciences and in genetics, medicine and nursing. The meaning and relevance of kinship and ethnicity in the context of genetic disease, cultural issues that have arisen in practice, including the influence of the lay public's beliefs about inheritance and the wider social and political context of genetics and genetic disease are all explored in depth.
Full Product Details
Author: E. Parsons ,
A. Clarke
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.516kg
ISBN: 9780333647028
ISBN 10: 0333647025
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 10 September 1997
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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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.
