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Risky Relations: Family, Kinship and the New Genetics

Risky Relations: Family, Kinship and the New Genetics

Featherstone, Katie
Atkinson, Paul
Bharadwaj, Aditya

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1845201795
ISBN13: 9781845201791
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Nov 1 2005
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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