Negotiating risk
Subtitle: British Pakistani experiences of genetics
By: Alison Shaw.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845455484
Subjects: Medical genetics -- Great Britain; Consanguinity -- Great Britain; Pakistanis -- Great Britain; Consanguinity -- Great Britain; Consanguinity -- Pakistan; Genetic Screening -- psychology -- Great Britain; Genetic Screening -- psychology -- Pakistan; Culture -- Great Britain; Culture -- Pakistan; Genetic Diseases, Inborn -- ethnology -- Great Britain; Genetic Diseases, Inborn -- ethnology -- Pakistan; Risk Assessment -- Great Britain; Risk Assessment -- Pakistan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medical and public perceptions of consanguineous marriage and genetic risk; title: Close kin marriages : some anthropological theory and European history; title: British Pakistani cousin marriages : balancing marital risks; title: Medical surveillance and diagnostic uncertainty; title: Responding to reproductive risk; title: Foretelling and managing infant death; title: Genetic screening and the extended family; title: Genetic risk in context.