Creating Conditions: The making and remaking of a genetic syndrome

by Paul Anthony Atkinson and Katie Featherstone

Book Overview

Based on original ethnographic research with scientists, clinicians and families, this book examines Rett syndrome to illuminate more general issues concerning the construction and interpretation of diseases and syndromes. It derives from research with a specialist team of clinicians and scientists, and a series of families referred with a potential diagnosis of Rett syndrome, and documents the scientific, clinical, patient and family experiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138019925
• ISBN13: 9781138019928
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"