CLINICAL GENETICS IN NURSING PRACTI...

CLINICAL GENETICS IN NURSING PRACTICE, next to the first ed By Felissa R. (Cohen) Lashley 1998 543 pp $79 hardcover

As give suck tos expand their roles and responsibilities in today's health care environment, the close attention of human genetics continues to increase in importance. The science of professional nursing make improvements in depth and breadth each year, compelling the ne to suit to increased public awareness and sophistication of human genetics.

In this strange edition, the author draws the reader within the complex study of human genetics. To understand the general intents of human genetics on health and society, health care workers must "think genetically" and, as the author explains, incorporate genetic universals into daily practice.

The work offers an in-depth study of genetics, from a review of basic information in part single in kind to a discussion of major disorders and conditions in part sum of two units After reviewing the basic introduction, readers can begin to incorporate this knowledge into clinical assessment, counseling, testing, and screening of clients and family members in part three The fourth part of the main division explores common maladies, both aged and new, providing a better understanding of the genetic ingredients that influence predisposition and genetic disorders.

common cannot study genetics today without addressing its ethical implications. Part five reviews the social, economic, political, and religious manipulations that offer in issues related to human genetics and decides with a discussion of cloning, the eugenics move and individual versus societal rights. Appropriately, the final chapter provides the reader with unanswered questions that must continue to be explored and debated.

This volume is extremely well written and understandable. Each chapter ties to the nearest but also stands alone in its delivery of information. A comprehensive bibliography is included in each chapter and contains scientific, economic, and legal literature, combined with articles from magazines as it is as Newsweek. A glossary provides additional explanations of relative boundarys included in the text, and an appendix lists; organizations and assemblages providing information, products, and services for genetic counseling.

This part provides a substantial reference for health care professionals to use in developing a better understanding of human genetics. Although it is not light reading, I highly attract favor to it as a comprehensive, in-depth allusion for the study of human genetics.

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