Cousin Marriages : : Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change / / ed. by Alison Shaw, Aviad E. Raz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Bartels, Edien,; Beaudevin, Claire,; Bittles, Alan H.,; Borry, Pascal,; Cornel, Martina C.,; Henneman, Lidewij,; Kate, Leo P. ten,; Kuper, Adam,; Liversage, Anika,; Prager, Laila,; Raz, Aviad E.,; Raz, Aviad,; Rytter, Mikkel,; Shaw, Alison,; Storms, Oka,; Teeuw, Marieke E.,; Zlotogora, Joël,
• HerausgeberIn: Raz, Aviad E.,; Shaw, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• 出版年: 2015
• 語言: English
• 叢編: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 28
• 實物描述: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the Middle East and in multi-ethnic Europe. It of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Prevalence and Outcomes of Consanguineous Marriage in Contemporary Societies
• Chapter 2 Risk Calculations in Consanguinity
• PART I Continuity and Change in Traditional Consanguineous Marriage
• Chapter 3 Cousin Marriages and Inherited Blood Disorders in the Sultanate of Oman
• Chapter 4 ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ Modern Biomedical Discourses and Changing Practices of Cousin Marriage in Southeastern Turkey
• PART II Cousin Marriages within Migrant Populations in Europe
• Chapter 5 British Pakistani Cousin Marriages and the Negotiation of Reproductive Risk
• Chapter 6 A Cousin Marriage Equals a Forced Marriage Transnational Marriages: between Closely Related Spouses in Denmark
• Chapter 7 Changing Patterns of Partner Choice? Cousin Marriages among Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands
• PART III Consanguinity and Managing Genetic Risk
• Chapter 8 Using Community Genetics for Healthy Consanguinity
• Chapter 9 Premarital Carrier Testing and Matching in Jewish Communities
• Chapter 10 Preconception Care for Consanguineous Couples in the Netherlands
• Afterword: The Marriage of Cousins in Victorian England
• Notes on Contributors
• Index