Moral landscapes and everyday life in families with Huntington's disease: Aligning ethnographic description and bioethics

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1810-1816

  Huniche, Lotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Denmark; Ethnography; Everyday life; Huntington's disease; Morality

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; ETHICS; FAMILY STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BIOETHICS; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FAMILY LIFE; FETUS RISK; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SERVICE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORALITY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RESPONSIBILITY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BIOETHICAL ISSUES; DENMARK; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FAMILY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MORALS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 79958757488     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.06.039     Document Type: Article

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