ENGLISH

Culture, Kinship and Genes: Towards Cross-Cultural Genetics

By Angus Clarke , Evelyn Parsons (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1997
ISBN
978-1-349-25884-0, 978-1-349-25882-6
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-25882-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28421160 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XII, 272\279
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
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Description

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.

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