Genetic Screening and Medical Genetics

Bibliographic Data

ID22369012
AuthorsA Shaw (0000-0002-5907-4608, University of Oxford, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages1-12
Publication date2018-09-05
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1867
OpenAlexW3082504968
ISBN9781118924396
LanguageEN
References cited26

Medical genetics is concerned with improving human health through the diagnosis, risk assessment, and management of human genetic disease. Genetic screening refers to the protocols and technologies for ascertaining risks for medical conditions with known genetic causes or contributions. The emerging anthropology of these practices offers a commentary on processes of clinical diagnosis and expertise, on the social settings of policies and practices of genetic screening, and on the personal, social, and political meanings of being identified as “at risk” in local and national contexts. Through ethnography and cross‐cultural comparison, it contributes to the growing social science and ethics literature on geneticization and medicalization, risk perception and risk acceptability, biosociality and community genetics, disability, and stigma

Bioethics · Biology · Genetic discrimination · Genetic testing · Human genetics · Medical genetics · Medicalization · Psychiatry · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Ethics in Clinical Research · Medicine · Race, Genetics, and Society · Genetics

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