TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finkler,Kaja
TI  - Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier
SN  - 9780812200607
AV  - GN480.2 -- .F56 2000eb 
U1  - 306.4/61 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Families
KW  - Heredity, Human-Social aspects
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Medical genetics-Social aspects
KW  - Families-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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