Genetics
How did Britain make the genetic counsellor?
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Between 1980 and 1995 UK genetic counselling shifted from a postwar medical practice to a trained profession; Bangham highlights the professional women who promoted that shift.
Key findings
Encounters communicate highly technical information. The course culminated a remarkable shift over several decades. For decades postwar, genetic counselling in the UK (had a different shape the paper then specifies). Professional women helped promote the practices.
Methodology
The paper reads genetic counselling as both technical communication and a professionalisation story, centred on a training course as the culmination of decades of change, and on women’s changing roles in visibility within science and medicine.
Limitations
This is a UK 1980–95 story, not a global history of genetics. Interview material is historical source, not a 2023 attitude survey.
How this study connects
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Between 1980 and 1995 UK genetic counselling shifted from a postwar medical practice to a trained profession promoted by professional women.
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