Karyotyping and the Emergence of Genetic Counselling in Mexico in the 1960s

Barahona, Ana

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51783-4_28

History of Human Genetics 2017

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51783-4_28

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Karyotyping and the Emergence of Genetic Counselling in Mexico in the 1960s

Ana Barahona¹

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“…Few accounts touch on the history of genetic counselling in the UK; exceptions include Coventry and Pickstone (1999); two Wellcome Witness Seminars (Reynolds and Tansey 2010; Jones and Tansey 2014) and clinical geneticist Peter Harper’s recent historical compendium (Harper 2020). There is growing scholarship on the history of genetic counselling in Canada, France, Mexico, Russia, Greece, Cyprus, East and West Germany, Belgium and Sweden (Barahona 2017; Baranov 2017; Barmpouti 2017; Björkman and Moser 2017; Cowan 2009; Doetz 2017; Gaudillière 2011; Leeming 2004; Nemec and Moser 2017; Vandendriessche 2017).…”

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Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995

Bangham

2023

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The professional identity of the ‘genetic counsellor’ first took shape in the UK in the early 1990s, when the University of Manchester established the country’s first masters-level training course. Postwar, genetic counselling had been carried out by (male) clinical geneticists, who, alongside their research, clinical and field-building activities, met patients and families to discuss inherited conditions and risk estimates, and who sometimes advised parents whether to attempt or continue pregnancies. By contrast, the new cohort of students in Manchester in the 1990s were not medically trained, were mostly women, and were schooled in the psychological and social consequences of genetic testing and diagnosis, as well as methods for the care, support and emotional management of patients and families. This was a significant change both in the practices of ‘genetic counselling’ and who was expected to practise it. Focusing on a small section of this history, between 1980 and 1995, this paper describes some of the historical threads that contributed to this change. It charts the early work of genetic nurses and social workers, who in the 1980s carved out distinctive roles within National Health Service genetics centres. It describes the separate, specialist provision developed by sickle cell and thalassaemia counsellors, who developed new approaches in dialogue with racialised and underserved patient communities. It examines growing interest in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the tacit social and cultural conditions of genetic counselling encounters, and how this cohered with attention from disability scholars, psychologists and social scientists. By describing these historical contributions, this paper explores how the intersecting gendered, racialised and disciplinary politics of clinical genetics shaped the new professional role of the ‘genetic counsellor’.

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Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995

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2023

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“…Buentello personal communication of November 9, 2012.24 It is worth noting that Lisker was part of the WHO Working Group on Genetic Counselling as the Mexican representative, and gave Armendares advice on the subject. SeeWHO (1969) andBarahona (2017).…”

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Karyotyping and population genetics in Cold War Mexico: Armendares’s and Lisker’s characterization of child and indigenous populations, 1960s-1980s

Barahona

2019

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This paper focuses on geneticists Salvador Armendares’s and Rubén Lisker’s studies from the 1960s to the 1980s, to explore how their work fits into the post-1945 human biological studies, and also how the populations they studied, child and indigenous, can be considered laboratories of knowledge production. This paper describes how populations were considered for different purposes: scientific inquiry, standardization of medical practices, and production or application of medicines. Through the narrative of the different trajectories and collaborations between Armendares and Lisker, this paper also attempts to show the contact of their scientific practices, which brought cytogenetics and population genetics together at the local and global levels from a transnational perspective.

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Genetics in Mexico: Mapping the Discipline

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Cheé-Santiago²,

Granados-Riveros³

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Karyotyping and the Emergence of Genetic Counselling in Mexico in the 1960s

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Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995

Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–1995

Karyotyping and population genetics in Cold War Mexico: Armendares’s and Lisker’s characterization of child and indigenous populations, 1960s-1980s

Genetics in Mexico: Mapping the Discipline

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