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Genetics, health and society

Title
  1. Genetics, health and society / edited by Brea L. Perry.
Published by
  1. London : Emerald Group Publishing, 2015.

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Additional authors
  1. Perry, Brea L.
Description
  1. xxiii, 305 pages : illustrations, maps, tables; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. This volume of Advances in Medical Sociology focuses on critical issues surrounding the intersection of genetics, health, and society. It includes articles by leading sociologists of science, medicine, and health, covering topics such as social epigenetics, gene-environment interactions, genomic instability, and genetic approaches to race and health disparities. -- Back cover.
Series statement
  1. Advances in medical sociology ; v.16
Uniform title
  1. Advances in medical sociology ; v. 16.
Subject
  1. Social medicine
  2. Genetics > Social aspects
  3. Human genetics > Social aspects
  4. Genetic engineering > Social aspects
  5. Sozialmedizin
  6. Genetik
Contents
  1. Heritability studies : methodological flaws, invalidated dogmas, and changing paradigms / Callie H. Burt -- All marked-up in the genetic era : race and ethnicity as "floating signifiers" in genetic and genomic research / Latricia Best, W. Carson Byrd -- Genetic approaches to health disparities / Catherine Bliss -- Making a case for genetics : interdisciplinary visions and practices in the contemporary social sciences / Sara Shostak, Jason Beckfield -- Researching genes, behavior, and society to improve population health : a primer in complex adaptive systems as an integrative approach / Patricia Goodson -- Sociology in an age of genomic instability : copy number variation, somatic mosaicism, and the fallen genome / Martine Lappe, Hannah Landecker -- Natural symptoms? The intersection of social, biological, and genetic determinants of depression in later life / Jason Schnittker -- Frames of reference : marketing the practice and ethics of PGD on fertility clinic websites / Debra Swoboda -- The right to know or not to know : risk notification and genetic counselling / Amaya Gilson ... [et al.] -- Using public-private partnerships to mitigate disparities in access to genetic services : lessons from Wisconsin / Laura Senier, Matthew Kearney, Jason Orne.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.