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Certainty and uncertainty in genetic counselling: A qualitative case study

1 Feb 2000

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This study examines the communication that occurs during routine genetic counselling sessions. It involves the qualitative analysis of nine consultations with one member of a clinical genetics team. The consultations were characterised by a contrast between the sense of certainty apparent in how the clinicians talked about the power and promise of the new genetics and the uncertainty communicated regarding the...

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PMID: 12569931
DOI: 10.1080/08870440008400284

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