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Index Adoptees: description, 117-72; and family medical history, 4, 9, 118, 122, 232n22; and mass media, 9; percent searching for birth parents, 120, 232nl4; ratio of women to men, 232nl8; reasons for not searching for birth parents, 120, 169-70; reasons for searching for birth parents, 118-19, 121, 122-24, 127-28, 129,133, 136, 137-38. 146, 150, 152, 156, 157, 159-60, 162-68, 170, 205. See alsoFamily medical history;Mass media Adoption: in ancient Rome 31, 32; and class, 121-22, 127-29, 131-35, 140-43, 150-51, 162, 171; and family and kinship , xiv, 4, 118; history of search movement , 121, 144; history in the United States. 117-18; and ideology' of genetic inheritance, 9, 42, 117; and medical records , 144; in Mexico, xi—xii; and race, 146, 147, 149, 151-55, 171; and reproductive technologies, 225n83, 238n5. Sec nittj Familyand kinship;Ideology of genetic inheritance Alice. See Narratives, health\ women with a family history of cancer Andersen. Robert, 118-19, 231n7, 232nn9, 10 Angela. See Narratives, adoptees Angell, Marcia, I,217n41 American society: chronic diseases, 203-4; concept of choice, 155; definition of kinship . 35; doing fieldwork in, xn; family and kinshipin. 15, 30, 38, 206, 221n31, 222 n52. 224 n67; genetic determinism, 3, 22()n 1; legal definition of family and kinship in, 222 n39, 222-23n58; family, kinship, and class in, 223 n59; memory and generational continuity in, 10, 15; and significant same group, 15,29; and witchcraft beliefs, 59. See also Family and kinship; Ideology of genetic inheritance; Memory and generational continuity; Reproductive technologies; Significant same group Bartholet, Elizabeth, 119-20, 231n7, 232nll,232nnl2, 13, 16 Bauman, Zygmunt,206, 207, 233 n6, 239 n24, 240 nn30, 33 Betty. See Narratives, women who had experienced breast cancer Biological determinism, ideology- of, x Biomedical: ideology and experience,xiv; knowledge, authority of, xiii Biomedicine: changes in nineteenth century , 225—26nl4; concepts of the body, 199; etiological explanations of disease, 6, 8, 12— 13; and chronic disease, 203—4; and class, 230nl; and family and kinship 43, 171, 182-83; and family medical history , 134; and Human Genome Project, 49-50; and ideology of genetic inheritance ,!21; in Mexico, 204; and legal system , 209; and new genetics, 1; and social and cultural construction, 11-12. See also Family and kinship; Family medical history ; Human Genome Project; Ideology of genetic inheritance; Social and cultural construction Bobinski, Mary Ann, 182, 235n46 270 Index Bowler, Peter, 11, 202, 203, 218 nn58, BO, 225n9, 226-227n27, 227n35, 239nl2 Boyarin,Jonathan, 9, 217n49 Breast cancer: alternative views by women, 59-60, 68, 70, 73-74, 78-81, 84-86, 96, 98, 102, 109, 115; and family and kinship , 4, 229n8, 235n45; healthy women with family historyof, 58—75; and mass media, 82; and predestination, 68—69, 87-88; and prophylactic mastectomies, 231nl4; and randomness, 76;and redemption , 80, 88; risk factors for, 2.3031nlO ; and spirituality, 88, 207; women with, 76-116. See also Chapters 5, 6 passim ; Familyand kinship; Mass media Broom, Dorothy, 175, 233n2 Bruce. SeeNarralives, adoptees Carol. See Narratives, women who had experienced breast cancer Cancer: contemporary theories of, 57, 58, 229nl 1;Galen on, 57; and health insurance , 92; and mass media, 68, 81; and mutations, 58; and witchcraft, 72-73.See aho Breast cancer; Mass media Carsten, Janet, 28-29, 220nl5 Chca, Chanthan, 211, 241n49 Chris. See Narratives, women who had experienced breast cancer Collins, Francis,214n4, 216nl2, 217nn40, 47, 228n51 Conception, theories of, 219-20nl3; nineteenth-century Western society, 46; non-Western societies, 24, 39-40 Connerton, Paul, 9, 217nn50, 52 Connie. See Narratives, women who had experienced breast cancer Copcland, Peter, 52, 190, 216n6, 229nn71, 72,232n24, 236nl6 Cullinan, Alice 194, 237n52 Culture, defined, 13,76 Cultural pool of (etiological) understandings , 13, 196, 218-19n74. Seealso Ideology of genetic inheritance Darwin, Charles, 47; and natural selection, 13-14 Dewey.John, 5,217n33 Dina. See Narratives, women who had experienced breast cancer DNA: banking, 186; and class, 187; concept, 47, 48, 227n31; and family and kinship, 16,187, 200, 206, 209;and fatherhood test, 125,150, 217n56; and memory and generational continuity, 10,151,187, 196, 201, 208; and morality, 187, 206, 207; and newgenetics, 5();andpersonhood, 196, 199, 200; and therapeutics, 189-90 Dolgin,Janet, 3, 40-41, 209, 216nn24, 26, 219n87, 22Inn 14, 29, 222nn33, 45, 46, 47, 223nn65, 76, 79, 224n80, 225 nn2, 81, 84, 85, 231n4, 233n26, 24()n42 Dorothy. See Narratives, healthy women with a family historyof...
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