Everything a health professional needs to know about genetics

Abstract

The audience of this book, as identified by the authors, is any health professional who has an interest in genetics. The book has a number of useful components, including the use of cases to illustrate the various points, key practice points, the use of self-test questions at the end of the chapters, and a listing of further resources. For example, early on in the book there is a section on dealing with unexpected information when taking a family history. In this example, the male partner of a couple who comes for genetic counseling because of the birth of a child with ocular albinism is unexpectedly suspected to have Marfan syndrome (which had previously not been diagnosed in him or his family members). The vignette then goes on to describe how the advanced practice nurse seeing this family approaches this possibility, and the family's response.