Nina Hallowell, 4th november 1957 – 28th June 2023: a risk researcher who explored the ways in which genetics touches human lives

Abstract

Nina Hallowell was a medical sociologist, Professor of Social and Ethical Aspects of Genomics at the University of Oxford, and an active member of the editorial board of Health, Risk & Society. In this article I reflect on her contribution to the journal and to the interdisciplinary study of risk especially through her research on the risk of new genetic technologies, both its management and impact on those at-risk.

Keywords:

• Hallowell
• risk
• at-risk
• genetics
• new technologies

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