Dor Yeshorim, the premarital carrier testing program designed and implemented by the ultra-
orthodox Jewish community, has succeeded in generating high uptake thus considerably …

The use of social identities in genetic research is increasing, yet for the most part their use
remains untheorized. The possible consequences of this practice extend beyond the …

Dor Yeshorim, a genetic testing programme focusing on the 'genetic compatibility'of
prospective couples in Orthodox Jewish communities in Europe, the US and Israel, is at the …

Carrier testing of adults provides information about the risk of passing a genetic mutation to
your children, leading to reproductive (and some say, eugenic) decisions. Excessive carrier …

This article reports on attitudes of modern-religious Ashkenazi Jewish adults in Israel toward
anonymous carrier matching for severe monogenic diseases by Dor Yesharim (the ultra …

The ongoing debate about the relationship between race and genetics is more than a
century old and has yet to be resolved. Recent emphasis on population-based patterns in …

There is a growing movement in medical genetics to develop, implement, and promote a
model of race‐based medicine. Although race‐based medicine may become a widely …

The impetus for this review is the intriguing realisation that eugenics, viewed as dystopian
and authoritarian in most of the 20th century, is in the process of being reinterpreted today …

Since the inception of the Human Genome Project both biomedical practice and popular
perceptions have been increasingly ''geneticized''(Lippman 1991): a rapidly expansive array …

Strategies for protecting historically disadvantaged groups have been extensively debated
in the context of genetic variation research, making this a useful starting point in examining …