A reminder about the Medical Anthropology Seminar today:
“Magic genes” [genies?] in a bottle: Families’ experiences with new genetic therapies for a fatal childhood illness
Christopher J. Condin, Doctoral Fellow
Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Genetics
Department of Anthropology
3:30-4:30 pm in ANSO 205
We have Christopher Condin’s 2005 MA thesis from the Department of Anthropology in Koerner Library if you’d like to read more, post-talk, on the anthropology of families and genetic therapy. It’s called “The changing meaning of gene therapy : exploring the significance of curative genetic research in the narratives of families with Duchenne muscular dystrophy” and it’s in the microform collection at AW5 .B71 2006-0024 – ask for help if you can’t find it.
