Bodies in Glass. By Deborah L. Steinberg. Pp. 224. (Manchester University Press, 1997.) £35.00, hardback; £14.99, paperback, ISBN 0-7190-4668-8
In: Journal of biosocial science: JBS, Volume 31, Issue 3, p. 425-432
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In: Journal of biosocial science: JBS, Volume 31, Issue 3, p. 425-432
ISSN: 1469-7599
In: Journal of biosocial science: JBS, Volume 30, Issue 1, p. 135-144
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In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 20, Issue 1, p. 131
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In: Journal of biosocial science: JBS, Volume 11, Issue S6, p. 177-195
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Among the conflicts of modern life is that faced by many educated women between the desire to pursue a professional career and the demands of their potential maternal role. Some resolve this by deferring having children. This deferment, coupled with an increased awareness of birth defects generally and of the problems faced by older mothers, leads to an increasing number of queries to genetic advisory services, family doctors, obstetricians, and family planning centres, as to the specific risks in reproduction by older parents. The appreciable risk of death in childbed of earlier days is no longer with us, thanks to modern obstetric techniques. But the child morbidity due to congenital and genetic disorders, already appreciable (Roberts, Chavez & Court, 1970; Roberts, 1975) and increasing both proportionately and absolutely, and the evidence that some of these increase in incidence with age, mean that there is a real basis for the enquirers' concern. The following review of the ways in which parental ageing affects the incidence of such disorders, and of the mechanisms that appear to be responsible, places the increased risks in perspective.
In: Journal of biosocial science: JBS, Volume 10, Issue 3, p. 299-301
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