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A genetic future for coronary heart disease?

Sociology of health & illness - 1 Apr 2008

Weiner Kate, Martin Paul

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This paper is concerned with changing conceptions of genetic disease. It is based on an analysis of biomedical literature and focuses on the treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD) in four published commentary papers. The aim of this analysis is to explore the ways in which CHD is constructed as genetic and the place of genetic discourses in the wider set of ideas that circulate about the disease. This analysis...

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PMID: 18419694
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01058.x

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