Jessica Mozersky

Risky Genes

Genetics, Breast Cancer and Jewish Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to be told you have an increased risk of genetic breast cancer because you are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin? In a time of ever increasing knowledge about variations in genetic disease risk among different populations, there is a pressing need for research regarding the implications of such information for members of high-risk populations. With first hand, intimate descriptions of women's experiences of being Jewish and of being at increased risk of genetic breast cancer, this book offers new insight into the ongoing debates regarding the implications of genetic research for populations, and of new genetic knowledge for individual and collective identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780415502283
• ISBN-10: 0415502284
• Artikelnr.: 33870720

Autorenporträt

Jessica Mozersky is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies (Penn CIGHT). She received her PhD in Anthropology from the interdisciplinary Institute of Human Genetics and Health at University College London. In 2011, she was selected to be a Visiting Researcher at the Brocher Foundation in Hermance, Switzerland. She is a founding member of an international comparative social science BRCA network, and has managed international multi-centre clinical trials for BRCA carriers and women at increased genetic risk of breast and ovarian cancer at University College London and King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Setting the Scene: Ashkenazi Jews and Genetic Disease 2.
The 'Ashkenazi BRCA Mutations' 3. Re-Thinking the Consequences of Medical
Genetic Research 4. On Being Jewish 5. History, Memory and the BRCA Genes
6. Future Generations. Conclusion. Notes. References.