Katie Featherstone

Risky Relations

Family, Kinship and the New Genetics

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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 f… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Atkinson, Paul / Bharadwaj, Aditya / Clarke, Angus

ISBN: 978-1-00-018328-3
EAN: 9781000183283
Produktnummer: 34112568
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'616 KB

Über den Autor

Katie Featherstone is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Social and Economic Aspects of Genomics, Cardiff University. Aditya Bharadwaj is a Research Associate in the Centre for Social and Economic Aspects of Genomics, Cardiff University. Angus Clarke is Professor and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics at the University of Wales College of Medicine. Paul Atkinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University, and Associate Director of the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Aspects of Genomics.