Culture, Kinship and Genes

Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction; A.Clarke - PART 1: BACKGROUND - Kinship and Medical Genetics; B.Modell - The Work of Culture; M.Strathern - What is an Ethnic Group?; H.MacBeth - What is an Ethnic Group; U.Sharma - PART 2: GENETIC DISEASE IN CONTEXT - Consanguineous Marriage and Genetics; A.Darr - Factors associated with Birth Outcome in Bradford Pakistanis; S.Proctor & I.Smith - The Relevance of Cultural Understanding to Clinical Genetic Practice; N.Quereshi - Women's Experiences of Screening in Pregnancy; J.Green & M.France-Dawson - Coping with the Sickle Cell Gene in Africa; O.Akinyanju - Cultural Influences on the Perception of Genetic Disorders in the Black Population of Southern Africa; J.Kromberg & T.Jenkins - The Role of Unconscious Fantasy in the Giving and Receiving of Genetic Counselling; G.Karbani, S.Godsill & B.Mueller - PART 3: INHERITANCE - Everyday Ideas of Inheritance and Health in Britain: Implications for Predictive Genetic Testing; C.Davison - Lay Knowledge about Inheritance; M.Richards - PART 4: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES - 'Once you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail'; P.Spallone - Learning Difficulties and the Guardians of the Gene; C.Goodey - Gamete Donation and the Management of Difference; F.Price - About Genetics; M.Stacey - Culture and Genetics; E.Parsons