ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
RELI-GENE is an interdisciplinary project which examines minorities’ attitudes towards genetic counselling and reproductive options in the case of inherited genetic recessive disorders and analyses how healthcare policies govern communities’ family formations. It focuses on close-knit religious minorities that emphasise consanguineous and endogamous marriages to strengthen communal bonds to provide a sense of solidarity and of safeguarding lineage and purity. Current scholarship focuses predominantly on single national contexts, specific healthcare policies and individual religious communities, neglecting comparable perspectives. RELI-GENE specifically analyses how transnational spaces…
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