: Family and Kinship in East London . Michael Young, Peter Willmott.

Family and Kinship in East London

Here is a full and balanced account of working-class relationships which makes interesting and fruitful reading. The samples used may be small but they are presented in an ordered and convincing way; and although the main feature is the distinctive framework of Bethnal Green yet, basically the conclusion reached seems to be that it has much in common with other comparable urban communities with...

African Family and Kinship

Michael Young

Michael Young was born in Miami, Florida. As an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin, he joined Burke Judd’s group for a summer of research. This was his introduction to Drosophila and genetics, and it stretched into a doctorate. His postdoctoral work was in the Department of Biochemistry at the Stanford School of Medicine where he began to study transposable elements. He was appo...

South East London Cancer Network

From Italy to East London

Received: 11 August 2005 Revised: 27 September 2005 Accepted: 29 September 2005 ‘Antonio! I’ve discovered a new Vietnamese restaurant, you have to try it, it’s excellent!’ this kind of conversation has been very common over the years I spent side by side with Claudio at the LSE. We moved to London at almost the same time and we both had to find out how to settle in the city. Our daily conversat...