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MONSTERS

The fear of an alien presence invading the body, nourishing itself from its cells and harming it before departing to become a detached (and sometimes alien) entity, is often attached to the anxiety of pregnancy. In films like Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby or Lynch’s Eraserhead, this anxiety is represented by the horror of the parent who [...]

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2009 08 19 meta Comments (0)

guilt

Chapple et al . (1995) observed that carrier and non-carrier women who had attended genetic counselling felt personally responsible and blamed themselves for their children’s disabilities and impairments, and did not change their views when it was explained that their child’s disorder was caused by genetic mutations that were out of their personal control. (Hallowell)
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2009 07 20 responsibility Comments (0)

brca family

With knowledge of genetic information, what is the family narrative based upon? Does the family’s sense of identity become entwined with an experience of illness?
An ancestry chart traditionally accounts the family history of marriages, births and deaths. The Price family tree follows the story of the BRCA gene’s path throughout the generations.
A family identity constructed [...]

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2009 07 01 Kinship Comments (0)