title: Commentary: a sociologist's view on community genetics.
abstract: This commentary illustrates and discusses potential research directions for sociologists and anthropologists interested in the field of community genetics and its emerging networks of individuals genetically at risk. Community genetics-the application of medical genetics in community settings for the benefit of individuals-also involves social issues of lay-professional misunderstandings (and more recently also the different perspectives of various expert communities), stigmatization, discrimination, and medicalization. Focusing on a socio-anthropological perspective regarding the views and disagreements surrounding the definition and scope of community genetics, I overview several epistemological, methodological, and practical contributions that such perspective can offer to the study of community genetics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel, aviadraz@bgu.ac.il.
authors.forename: Aviad E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Raz