We take this opportunity to bring to the attention of our readers and contributors the end of Katie Featherstone's term of office as Book Reviews Editor. Katie began with us at the end of 2003 which saw the momentous anniversary of Watson and Crick's description of the double helical structure of DNA in the journal Nature. As a medical sociologist studying genetics and kinship (see Featherstone et al. Citation2006), she was well placed to contribute more broadly to the success of the journal, and we thank her for all her hard work over the last five years. Katie is now senior lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) in the Cardiff School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies.
Katie is replaced by Flo Ticehurst who has been a genetics and society research officer for the Wales Gene Park since 2003, and is now also the Communications Officer for the Cardiff-Lancaster ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspect of Genomics. In addition to obtaining funding for a number of projects from the Wellcome Trust, she co-edited a key collection of articles in the new genetics and society for Palgrave Macmillan (Clarke and Ticehurst Citation2006). Flo is currently working with colleagues on the Cesagen research program on psychiatric genetics. She welcomes reviews from any of our readers, and wishes to remind contributors that any reviews published ensures the author an entitlement to a 30% reduction on books published by Routledge.
References
- Clarke, A. J., and Ticehurst, F. L., 2006. Clarke, A. J., and Ticehurst, F. L., eds. Living with the genome: ethical and social aspects of human genetics. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan; 2006.
- Featherstone, K., et al., 2006. Risky relations: family, kinship and the new genetics. Oxford: Berg; 2006.