Your story headlined 'Row over health risk to cousins who marry' (News, last week) raised important issues. The focus on 'cousin marriage' within Pakistani culture, rather than the individual risk of carrying the trait of sickle cell disorder, or deafness and having the disease, reflects such an archaic and pathetic view of eugenics that cloaks the ethnocentric moral reprisal of the 'other'.
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Cousin marriage: Is it a health risk? - BBC Health News 16th May 2008
Your letters - The Observer 18th May 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
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