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Negotiating Responsibility: Case Studies of Reproductive Decision‐Making and Prenatal Genetic Testing in Families Facing Huntington Disease

1 Jun 2005

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Three case studies are presented to further our understanding of how responsibility is negotiated in families when making decisions about genetic risk. These draw on a model of responsibility generated in a study of reproductive decision-making in families facing Huntington disease (HD) to illustrate the impact of prenatal testing on this process. This involves analyzing: how people present themselves as acting...

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PMID: 15959653
DOI: 10.1007/s10897-005-0619-3

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