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Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi: 10.1016/j. socscimed. 2011.07. 014 in the history of …

The practice of gamete donation has, until recently, been shrouded in secrecy. The stigma
associated with infertility and, in particular, donor insemination has been the main factor …

Abstract Background: Joint Hypermobility Syndrome (JHS) and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
(EDS) are heritable connective tissue disorders characterised by joint instability, pain …

In families affected by an inherited genetic condition, parents face a difficult task of having to
communicate genetic risk information to their children. A systematic review of all major …

Adoptive identity addresses these questions:“Who am I as an adopted person?” and “What
does being adopted mean to me, and how does this fit into my understanding of my self …

Genetic science has advanced rapidly in recent years; things happen now that might have
seemed like science fiction only ten years ago. Genetics and Society looks at the history of …

Since the late 1980s, in France and in a number of other countries, cancer genetics testing
has become a clinical reality, particularly for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. BRCA …

How 'the patient'is imagined has implications for ethical decision-making in clinical practice.
Patients are predominantly conceived in an individualised manner as autonomous and …

In 2% to 3% of cases, prenatal microarray testing detects deletions and duplications in a
fetus' genome that are undetected by conventional cytogenetics. Many of these changes are …

Searching and finding supposedly anonymous sperm donors or half-siblings by diverting
direct-to-consumer genetic testing is a novel phenomenon. I refer to such new forms of …