Colloquium on The process & consequences of genetic counselling
Cardiff University (UK)
Friday 30 June 2006, 9.00 - 12.00
Speakers include:
- Christine Evans, Psychiatrist/Psychotherapist (UK): 'Knowing and Not- Knowing in genetic counselling: 'Doing the genetic two- step' and professional intimacy'
- Alison Pilnick, University of Nottingham (UK): "It's something for you both to think about": Informed choice in nuchal translucency screening for Downs Syndrome'
- Esa Lehtinen, University of Vaasa (Finland): 'The personal, the general and in-between: Constructing relevance in genetic counseling'
- Jackie Leach Scully, Rouven Porz & Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, University of Basel (Switzerland): 'Time, space & tests: Patients making decisions about genetic testing'
- Angus Clarke, Srikant Sarangi, Lucy Brookes-Howell & Kate Verrier-Jones, Cardiff University (UK): 'The Risks and Benefits of Genetic Knowledge: divergent agendas of clients and counsellors in the case of polycystic kidney disease'
Fee: £50
Includes: colloquium, abstracts book, refreshment break, lunch, attendance at poster session & conference plenary (by Anssi Peräkylä, University of Helsinki (Finland) 'Between psychoanalysis and conversation analysis'.