Geneticization, medicalisation and polemics

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 235-243

  Hedgecoe, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic Determinism; Genetic Explanation; Genetic Technology; Metaphor; Prenatal Test

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GENOME; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MEDICINE; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; PHILOSOPHY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLICATION;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

CAUSALITY; CULTURE; GENETIC DETERMINISM; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MEDICINE; PERIODICALS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PUBLIC OPINION;

EID: 0032227207     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009969226655     Document Type: Article

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