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Risky Genes : Genetics, Breast Cancer and Jewish Identity

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

Online-Ressource (177 p)

Englisch

Cover; Risky Genes; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Historical Context; A Note About Terminology; Genetics and Population; Genetics and Identity; BRCA Genetic Breast Cancer; Management Options; Research Methods and Sites; Book Outline; 1 Setting the Scene: Ashkenazi Jews and Genetic Disease; What is a Population?; Genetic Drift; The Founder Effect; Selective Advantage; Founder Effect, Genetic Drift and Ashkenazi Jewish History; Tay-Sachs: The Archetypal 'Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Disease'; Screening Programmes; Dor Yeshorim

Jewish Theology and Cultural ContextConclusion; 2 The 'Ashkenazi BRCA Mutations'; Links with Jewish History; Disease as Punishment; Biosocial Coalitions and BRCA Advocacy; Population Screening; Conclusion; 3 Rethinking the Consequences of Medical Genetic Research; Implications of Genetic Research for Ashkenazi Jews; Continuities with Historical Discrimination; Associating Ashkenazi Jews with Ill Health; BRCA Survey Results; Conclusion; 4 On Being Jewish; Jewish Conceptions of Kinship and Belonging; On Being Jewish; Genetic Disease: Reiterating or Altering Connections; Conclusion

5 History, Memory and the BRCA GenesRecollection through Family Trees; Forgetting; Cancer: Historical Shame and Silence; Denial and Late Diagnosis; Opening Up Communication; Conclusion; 6 Future Generations; Recollecting Jewish Reproductive History; The Ultra-Orthodox as 'Other'; Marrying in: Implications for Future Generations; Marrying Out: A Dangerous Gene Pool; Conclusion; Conclusion; Notes; Introduction; 1 Setting the Scene: Ashkenazi Jews and Genetic Disease; 2 The 'Ashkenazi BRCA Mutations'; 4 On Being Jewish; 5 History, Memory and the BRCA Genes; 6 Future Generations; References

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Print version: Risky Genes : Genetics, Breast Cancer and Jewish Identity

978-0-415-50228-3

978-0-415-50228-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-1-136-24067-6 ( : 135 (NL,TX))

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

RC280.B8 M69 2013

304.5 ; 616.99449071     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Breast ; Cancer ; Risk factors ; Cancer ; Risk factors ; Jewish women ; Health risk assessment ; Women ; Health risk assessment ; Electronic books

Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. So what does it mean to be told you have an increased risk of genetic breast cancer because you are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin? In a time of ever-increasing knowledge about variations in genetic disease risk among different populations, there is a pressing need for research regarding the implications of such information for members of high-risk populations. Risky Genes provides first-hand intimate descriptions of women's experiences of being Jewish and of