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Is there a "right time" for bad news? Kairos in familial communication on hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk.

Social science & medicine (1982) - 1 Apr 2018

Derbez Benjamin

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Time has long been considered as an important dimension of the process of disclosure of information about genetic risk to kin. The question of the "right time to tell" has been frequently noticed but seldom placed at the centre of the analyses of social scientists. Based on an ethnographical fieldwork in a French cancer genetics clinic, this article aims to show that many dimensions of the practical issues of...

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PMID: 29500986
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.02.022

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