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Edited by Ruth Chadwick, Darren Schickle, Henk ten Have, and Urban Wiesing. 255 pp. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1999. $117. ISBN 0-7923-5614-4.

This book is a portrait of genetic screening that shows how the culture and history of a country determine the manner in which the science of genetics is viewed and the availability of particular clinical genetic services. At one extreme, in Germany, memories of the Nazi atrocities cause genetic counseling (and any other attempt to separate normality from abnormality) to be viewed with distrust. German geneticists are more likely than their counterparts in Portugal or the United Kingdom to counsel couples to continue affected pregnancies. In contrast, in the United Kingdom — and even more so in the United States . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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