Getting the Message Across: Communication With Diverse Populations In Clinical Genetics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199757410 ISBN 13: 9780199757411

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2013

Synopsis

Practical advice on effective communication across diverse population groups

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer Wiggins is a registered genetic counselor (UK) who has worked in clinical genetics services for 17 years. She has specialised in both pre-natal and cancer genetics. She has been the Vice-Chair of the Association of Genetic Nurses and Counselors and is a mentor and assessor for the Genetic Counselor Registration Board (UK and ROI) and is currently a senior genetic counselor at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

Anna Middleton has had two parallel careers, the first as a registered genetic counselor working in various regional clinical genetics services in the UK and the second as a social scientist exploring the ethical implications of genetic and genomic technologies. She has a PhD in Genetics and Psychology and is currently working as an Ethics Researcher at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. She has been the Vice-Chair of the Genetic Counselor Registration Board and on the editorial board for the Journal of Genetic Counseling (US).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199757410
• ISBN 13: 9780199757411
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Wiggins Jennifer