Susceptibility genes and the question of embodied identity

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 256-276

  Lock, Margaret ^a   Freeman, Julia ^a   Chilibeck, Gillian ^a   Beveridge, Briony ^a   Padolsky, Miriam ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; QUEBEC; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548292983     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2007.21.3.256     Document Type: Article

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