Atkinson, Paul Anthony ![]() ![]() |
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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