Narrative accounts of hereditary risk: Knowledge about family history, lay theories of disease, and "internal" and "external" causation

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 510-520

  Sanders, Tom ^a   Campbell, Rona ^b   Donovan, Jenny ^b   Sharp, Debbie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Family history; Heuristics; Narrative; Qenetics; Risk perceptions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC RISK; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL BELIEF;

CAUSALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; NARRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34147169870     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732306297882     Document Type: Article

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