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Growing Pains of a New Health Care Field: Genetic Counselling in Australia and the United States
Author(s) -
Kenen Regina H.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1986.tb00822.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , publishing , health care , medical care , health professionals , genetic counseling , balance (ability) , family medicine , medicine , nursing , political science , physical therapy , law , biology , genetics
The growing pains of genetic counselling in Australia and the United States are compared. Genetic counselling is discussed in terms of occupational struggles for status by the non‐medical professionals and the effect this has on the balance between counselling and medical goals in this new health care field. The influence of medical team members vis‐a‐vis non‐medical personnel is viewed as being stronger in Australia than in the United States.