Revealed identity: a study of the process of genetic counselling
This paper describes a qualitative study of the processes employed within a genetic counselling consultation. These processes, it is argued, can be seen to provide the patient with a genetic identity. But unlike the new identity conferred by the diagnosis of many chronic medical conditions a genetic identity is presented as an old one that is now revealed. This represents a reversal of the stigmatising process: instead of a spoiled identity replacing an actual one, the genetic consultation involves revealing an actual identity in the place of a previously presumed one. In this way, genetic counselling reconstructs identity in the past as well as in the future.
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1998
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Authors: | Armstrong, David ; Michie, Susan ; Marteau, Theresa |
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Social Science & Medicine. - Elsevier, ISSN 0277-9536. - Vol. 47.1998, 11, p. 1653-1658
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Elsevier |
Subject: | genetic counselling genetic risk |
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