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  title info:
    title: Health professionals and ethnic Pakistanis in Britain
    sub title: risk, thalessaemia and audit culture
  name:
    name part: Murphy, Richard
    role:
      role term: creator
  genre: Theses, Facsimile edition (Islamic)
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    place:
      place term: St Andrews]
    publisher: University St Andrews
    date issued: 2005
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    extent: 363 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
  abstract: The central theme or 'red-thread' that I consider in this thesis is the concept of risk as it is perceived by and affects the two sides of the medical encounter - in this instance ethnic Pakistanis and Health Professionals - in Britain. Each side very often perceives risk quite distinctively, relating to the balance between the spiritual and temporal realms. This is particularly germane in matters to do with possible congenital defects within the prenatal realm for the ethnic Pakistani, and predominantly Muslim, side of this encounter. Thus one of the factors considered in this thesis is how senses of Islam impact upon the two sides. By ethnic Pakistanis Islam is seen as central to all life decisions, whilst Health Professionals view Islam with some considerable trepidation, little understanding it or its centrality to the former's decision-making processes. This is particularly significant with regard to attitudes to health and health care. In the initial stages of the project I had thought first cousin marriage (FCM), seen by ethnic Pakistanis as desirable and by Health Professionals as desirable and by Health Professionals as putting ethnic Pakistanis at-risk, to be central to the argument, but concluded that concerns around FCM were a 'red herring', merely a trope for the tensions between the two sides - at once both British and at-risk from audit culture. Although no longer central, FCM remains a viable touchstone in consideration of the two sides' perceptions of genetic risk. In this thesis the medical encounter between ethnic Pakistanis and Health Professionals is performed within the realm of the so called New Genetics. Here the respective understandings of the New Genetics are informed by the enculturation processes that shape the two sides' world view. Furthermore, I will agree with Lord Robert Winston's and others' concern that any attempt to eradicate an adaptive genetic mutation, in this instance, thalassaemia, from the gene pool is not only undesirable…
  note: by Richard Murphy
  note: "A thesis submitted to the University of St. Andrews, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy."--On t. p.
  note: Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of St. Andrew, 2005
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-363).
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Medical personnel and patient
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Medical personnel
    topic: Attitudes
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Medical care
    topic: Psychological aspects
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Medical ethics
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Health risk assessment
  subject:
    topic: Thalassemia
    topic: Treatment
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Pakistanis
    topic: Ethnic identity
    geographic: Great Britain
  classification: R727.3
  record info:
    record content source: UIAM
    record creation date: 111219
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng