Collective Fear, Individualized Risk: the social and cultural context of genetic testing forbreast cancer
The purpose of this article is to provide a critical examination of two aspects of culture and biomedicine that have helped to shape the meaning and practice of genetic testing for breast cancer. These are: (1) the cultural construction of fear of breast cancer, which has been fuelled in part by (2)...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2000
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Nursing ethics
Year: 2000, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 237-249 |
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Ethics
B genetic testing B Risk B Breast Cancer B Culture |
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