Alan H Bittles

Consanguinity in Context

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Produktbeschreibung

An essential guide to the sensitive topic of cousin marriage, examining its social, medical, political and legal connotations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• ISBN-13: 9780521781862
• ISBN-10: 0521781868
• Artikelnr.: 35117737

Autorenporträt

Alan H. Bittles is Research Leader at the Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University and Adjunct Professor of Community Genetics at Edith Cowan University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Consanguineous marriage, past and present
2. Religious attitudes and rulings on consanguineous marriage
3. Civil legislation on consanguineous and affinal marriage
4. Consanguinity: the scientific and medical debates of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
5. Demographic and socioeconomic aspects of consanguineous marriage
6. A population genetics perspective on consanguinity
7. Consanguinity and reproductive behaviour
8. Consanguinity and metrical traits at birth and in childhood
9. Consanguinity and pre-reproductive mortality
10. Consanguinity and morbidity in early life
11. Consanguinity and disorders of adulthood
12. Incest
13. Genetic screening, education and counselling in consanguineous marriage
14. Whither consanguineous marriage?
15. Consanguinity in context
References
Index.