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Experiencing the New Genetics : Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812200607
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Experiencing the New GeneticsDDC classification:
  • 306.4/61
LOC classification:
  • GN480.2 -- .F56 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Setting the Stage: Kinship and Genetics -- 2. The Role of Kinship in Human Life -- 3. Family and Kinship in American Society -- 4. Concepts of Heredity in Western Society -- Part II. Setting Out People's Experience -- 5. People with a Genetic History I: Patients Without Symptoms -- 6. People with a Genetic History II: Recovered Patients -- 7. People Without a Medical History: Adoptees -- Part III. Implications -- 8. The Ideology of Genetic Inheritance in Contemporary Life: The Medicalization of Kinship -- 9. A Multidimensional Critique of Genetic Determinism -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Experiencing the New Genetics will lead scholars and general readers alike to question how far genetic inheritance affects our selves and our future.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Setting the Stage: Kinship and Genetics -- 2. The Role of Kinship in Human Life -- 3. Family and Kinship in American Society -- 4. Concepts of Heredity in Western Society -- Part II. Setting Out People's Experience -- 5. People with a Genetic History I: Patients Without Symptoms -- 6. People with a Genetic History II: Recovered Patients -- 7. People Without a Medical History: Adoptees -- Part III. Implications -- 8. The Ideology of Genetic Inheritance in Contemporary Life: The Medicalization of Kinship -- 9. A Multidimensional Critique of Genetic Determinism -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

Experiencing the New Genetics will lead scholars and general readers alike to question how far genetic inheritance affects our selves and our future.

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