Patient and Professional Constructions of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia and Heart Disease: Testing the Limits of the Geneticisation Thesis

This thesis provides an empirical investigation of the geneticisation thesis. Geneticisation is one of the most prominent critiques of the social and cultural implications of developments in genetics. It incorporates a set of claims and expectations about the way genetic knowledge and technologies...

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Main Author: Weiner, Kate
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2006
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10190/