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The existing historiography of genetic counselling focuses on the problematic relationship of medical genetics and eugenics with a strong focus on developments in the USA, France and Great Britain. This comment discusses the shared scenario for the advent of genetic counselling this rich collection of new national histories brings to the fore as well as the perspectives it opens for a comparative and social history of genetic counselling.
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Gaudilliere, JP. (2017). A Comparative and Social History of Genetic Counselling?. In: Petermann, H., Harper, P., Doetz, S. (eds) History of Human Genetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51783-4_32
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