Community Genetics and Genetic Alliances: Eugenics, Carrier Testing, and Networks of Risk

Abstract

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: carrier testing, eugenics and networks of risk -- 1. What is community genetics? Definitions and debates -- 2. Carrier matching and collective socialisation: Dor Yesharim and the reinforcement of stigma -- 3. Reproductive carrier testing between orthodoxy and change -- 4. The medicalization of cousin marriage: carrier testing in a Muslim community -- 5. Genetic alliances: the dilemma of care and prevention -- 6. Scientific, communal and lay interpretations of carrier testing -- Conclusion: in search of regulatory and moral models -- Notes -- References -- Index

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