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Contents Preface 1. Introduction Part I. Setting the Stage: Kinship and Genetics 2. The Role of Kinship in Human Life 3. Family and Kinship in American Society 4. Concepts of Heredity in Western Society Part II. Setting Out People's Experience 5. People with a Genetic History I: Patients Without Symptoms 6. People with a Genetic History II: Recovered Patients 7. People Without a Medical History: Adoptees Part III. Implications 8. The Ideology of Genetic Inheritance in Contemporary Life: The Medicalization ofKinship 9. A Multidimensional Critique of Genetic Determinism 10.Conclusion ix 1 19 21 30 44 55 57 76 117 173 175 188 197 Notes References Index Acknowledgments viii Contents 213 243 269 277 ...