Culture, Kinship and Genes: Towards Cross-Cultural Genetics

by Angus Clarke

Book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333647025
• ISBN13: 9780333647028
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"