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Information, understanding and the benign order of everyday life in genetic counselling.

Sociology of health & illness - 1 Jul 2005

Lehtinen Esa

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Genetic counselling as a medical encounter is characterised by the centrality of the provision of information. Much of the counselling session is filled by information delivery about the symptoms, the prognosis and the transmission of the disease, the risks involved and the possibilities for genetic testing. The present paper is a study of how information is delivered in actual genetic counselling sessions. The...

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PMID: 16078902
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2005.00457.x

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