Kaja Finkler

Experiencing the New Genetics

Family, Kinship, and the Medical Frontier

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Over the past several decades there has been an explosion of interest in genetics and genetic inheritance within both the research community and the mass media. The science of genetics now forecasts great advances in alleviating disease and prolonging hum

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780812217209
• ISBN-10: 0812217209
• Artikelnr.: 22273215

Autorenporträt

Kaja Finkler

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
PT. 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
PT. 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.
PT. 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
Acknowledgments