Medical genetics in South Africa : past lessons, future challenges

dc.contributor.authorChristianson, A.L. (Arnold L.)
dc.date.accessioned2009-04-14T12:23:19Z
dc.date.available2009-04-14T12:23:19Z
dc.date.created2009-03-23
dc.date.issued1997-03
dc.description.abstractMr Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, colleagues and friends, I have in the preceding address delineated my vision of the core role of medical genetics as it pertains to medicine in South Africa today. In undertaking this I have related the development of Human and Medical Genetics internationally to that in our own country, both past and present. Thereafter I have attempted to offer some insights into the challenges my generation of medical geneticists is facing in the new millenium. These challenges offer us the opportunity of evolving solutions for our own unique South African circumstances. However, I believe implicitly that these answers will have consequences, not only for us but also for other underdeveloped countries and the First World. Although the Department of Human Genetics and Developmental Biology is small and our history short, I am confident that, as we have managed to be in the vanguard of developments in medical genetics this decade, this will continue into the next century.en_US
dc.description.tableofcontentsp. 23-33: Publikasies van die Universiteit van Pretoria (Nuwe Reeks)
dc.description.urihttp://explore.up.ac.za/record=1739123
dc.format.extent33 p. ; 21 cmen_US
dc.format.mediumTexten_US
dc.identifier.isbn1868541975
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/9610
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPublikasies van die Universiteit van Pretoria. Nuwe reeks ; nr 319.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPublications of the University of Pretoria. New series ; no.319en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInaugural addresses (University of Pretoria)
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dc.rightsUniversity of Pretoriaen_US
dc.sourceOriginal publication: Christianson, A.L. Mediese genetika in Suid-Afrika : lesse uit die verlede, uitdagings vir die toekoms = Medical genetics in South Africa : past lessons, future challenges (Pretoria : University of Pretoria, [1997]), 33 p.
dc.subjectClinical geneticsen_US
dc.subjectDiseases -- Genetic aspects
dc.subjectHeredity of disease
dc.subject.ddc616.042
dc.subject.lcshMedical genetics
dc.titleMedical genetics in South Africa : past lessons, future challengesen_US
dc.title.alternativeMediese genetika in Suid-Afrika : lesse uit die verlede, uitdagings vir die toekomsaf
dc.typeTexten_US

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