Professional constructions of family and kinship in medical genetics

Atkinson, Paul Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7367-8160, Parsons, Evelyn Patricia and Featherstone, Katie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4999-8425 2001. Professional constructions of family and kinship in medical genetics. New Genetics and Society 20 (1) , pp. 5-24. 10.1080/14636770125617

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Abstract

Based on a period of ethnographic fieldwork among geneticists, the paper explores how clinicians and scientists construct families as objects of discourse. It documents how the family is constructed as a social object and as a set of biological relationships. The professional work of geneticists thus traverses the boundaries of the natural and the social. The pedigree, or family tree, is a boundary object between those two discursive domains.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Healthcare Sciences Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics R Medicine > RT Nursing
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge): STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles
ISSN:	1463-6778
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2022 12:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/10957

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