Negotiating Risk : : British Pakistani Experiences of Genetics /

Negotiating Risk : : British Pakistani Experiences of Genetics / / Alison Shaw.

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Drawing on fieldwork with British Pakistani clients of a UK genetics service, this book explores the personal and social implications of a ‘genetic diagnosis’. Through case material and comparative discussion, the book identifies practical ethical dilemmas raised by new genetic knowledge and shows h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Shaw, Alison,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Exploring genetic risk
  • Chapter 1: Medical and public perceptions of consanguineous marriage and genetic risk
  • Chapter 2: Close kin marriages: some anthropological theory and European history
  • Chapter 3: British Pakistani cousin marriages: balancing marital risks
  • Chapter 4: Medical surveillance and diagnostic uncertainty
  • Chapter 5: Responding to reproductive risk
  • Chapter 6: Foretelling and managing infant death
  • Chapter 7: Genetic screening and the extended family
  • Chapter 8: Genetic risk in context
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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