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The indispensable annual British Social Attitudes survey compiles, describes and comments on a range of current social attitudes. The series charts changes in British social values, with annual surveys carried out from a nationwide sample of around 3,500 people by the National Centre for Social Research's team of interviewers.The 18th Report summarizes and interprets data from the most recent survey, and makes comparisons with findings from previous years.

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Genetic Research: Friend or Foe?

By: Nina Stratford, Theresa Marteau & Martin Bobrow
In:British Social Attitudes: The 18th Report
Chapter DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781849208642
Subject:Economics, Education, Geography, Health, Political Science and International Relations, Social Policy and Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology
Keywords:abortion; abortion; attitudes; attitudes; dependent variables; diagnosis; disease; disease; employers; employers; gene therapy; gene therapy; genes; genes; genetic determinism; genetic determinism; genetic research; genetic testing; genetics; genetics; government; government; homosexuality; homosexuality; human characteristics; human characteristics; Human Genetics Commission; Human Genetics Commission; illness; illness; information use; information use; insurance; insurance; insurance companies; insurance companies; insurers; insurers; intelligence; intelligence; manipulation; manipulation; parenting; parenting; public opinion; public opinion; religion; religion; social attitudes; social attitudes; social class; social class; social research; testing; welfare state; welfare state

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Genetic Research: Friend or Foe?

NinaStratford

TheresaMarteau

MartinBobrow∗

It has been a momentous time for genetic research since we last reported on public attitudes in this field in The 16th Report (Stratford et al, 1999). The most notable achievement has been the completion of a draft of the human genome sequence, which received a great deal of ...

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