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The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History
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This guide is ideal for healthcare professionals including physicians, nurses, medical social workers, physician assistants, and genetic counsellors seeking practical methods for gathering and using genetic family histories in clinical practice.
Like its first edition, The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History, Second Edition is an invaluable resource outlining the best practices in taking and recording a patient's family medical history, allowing healthcare professionals to be well informed and efficient in diagnosing conditions with potential genetic components.
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HELPS YOU DEVELOP AND ASSESS PEDIGREES TO MAKE DIAGNOSES, EVALUATE RISK, AND COUNSEL PATIENTS
The Second Edition of The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History not only shows how to take a medical-family history and record a pedigree, but also explains why each bit of information gathered is important. It provides essential support in diagnosing conditions with a genetic component. Moreover, it aids in recommending genetic testing, referring patients for genetic counselling, determining patterns of inheritance, calculating risk of disease, making decisions for medical management and surveillance, and informing and educating patients. Based on the author's twenty-five years as a genetic counsellor, the book also helps readers deal with the psychological, social, cultural, and ethical problems that arise in gathering a medical-family history and sharing findings with patients.
Featuring a new Foreword by Arno Motulsky, widely recognised as the founder of medical genetics, and completely updated to reflect the most recent findings in genetic medicine, this Second Edition presents the latest information and methods for preparing and assessing a pedigree, including:
- Value and utility of a thorough medical-family history
- Directed questions to ask when developing a medical-family history for specific disease conditions
- Use of pedigrees to identify individuals with an increased susceptibility to cancer
- Verification of family medical information
- Special considerations when adoptions or gamete donors are involved
- Ethical issues that may arise in recording a pedigree
Throughout the book, clinical examples based on hypothetical families illustrate key concepts, helping readers understand how real issues present themselves and how they can be resolved.
This book will enable all healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, medical social workers, and physician assistants, as well as genetic counsellors, to take full advantage of the pedigree as a primary tool for making a genetic risk assessment and providing counselling for patients and their families.
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"An invaluable resource enabling clinical geneticists, counsellors, physicians, nurses, social workers, and assistants to effectively utilise pedigrees for genetic risk assessment and patient counselling." (Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, December 2010)
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ISBN: 9780470040720
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 March 2010
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustration: Photos: 20 B&W, 0 Color; Drawings: 25 B&W, 0 Color
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 231.0mm
Weight: 544g
Pages: 384
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About the Author
Robin L. Bennett has been a genetic counselor in the genetics clinic at the University of Washington Medical Center for over 20 years. She has proven and award-winning expertise in helping patients, families, and her colleagues at all levels deal with the multitude of practical, logistical, psychological, and diagnostic issues that are a day to day part of genetic counseling.
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