Genetics, Health, and Society Vol: 16


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Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781783505814
Published:
Publisher:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Dimensions:
336 pages - 152 x 229 x 22mm
Series:
Advances in Medical Sociology
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This volume focuses on critical issues surrounding the intersection of genetics, health, and society. It provides a critical examination of sociological and biomedical approaches to genomics, including strengths and limitations of each perspective.

Heritability Studies: Methodological Flaws, Invalidated Dogmas, and Changing Paradigms.Genetic Approaches to Health Disparities.Making a Case for Genetics: Interdisciplinary Visions and Practices in the Contemporary Social Sciences.Researching Genes, Behavior, and Society to Improve Population Health: A Primer in Complex Adaptive Systems as an Integrative Approach.Sociology in an Age of Genomic Instability: Copy Number Variation, Somatic Mosaicism, and the Fallen Genome.Natural Symptoms? The Intersection of Social, Biological, and Genetic Determinants of Depression in Later Life.Frames of Reference: Marketing the Practice and Ethics of PGD on Fertility Clinic Websites.The Right to Know or Not to Know: Risk Notification and Genetic Counselling.Using Public-Private Partnerships to Mitigate Disparities in Access to Genetic Services: Lessons from Wisconsin.All Marked-Up in the Genetic Era: Race and Ethnicity as “Floating Signifiers” in Genetic and Genomic Research.Genetics, Health and Society.Advances in medical sociology.Genetics, Health and Society.Copyright page.List of Contributors.The Sociology of, in, and with Genetics: The Role of Medical Sociology in the Era of “-omics”.Editorial Advisory Board.

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