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 |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Healthcare Sciences Schools > 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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