Understanding life's lottery. An evaluation of studies of genetic risk awareness

Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-43

  Hallowell, Nina ^a   Richards, Martin P M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Family Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic counselling; Methodology; Risk awareness; Risk recall

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 0030928116     PISSN: 13591053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135910539700200104     Document Type: Article

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