Background. Despite abortion being one of the mostcommon gynaecological procedures performed in the UK,significant regional variation exists in access to services.Objective. This study explores women’s experience ofreferral for abortion in three inner London boroughs todetermine if services met their expectations. Method. In-depth interviews conducted with 21 women of<lb...

I N.J. Allen has recently investigated the possibility of modelling transformations from tetradic society – which he devised as a model of prehistoric human kinship and is intimately linked to his scholarship – to what are conventionally known as Crow-Omaha systems, themselves the subject of a recent collection reappraising the problems associated with them (Trautmann and Whiteley 2012). Allen’...

At least one of every five marriages is consanguineous (between couples who are second cousins or closer) in the Middle East and North Africa, rate higher than 50 percent some parts world. Consanguineous marriage generates serious health problems for offspring constitutes an economic problem with its associated medical costs impact on human capital. The prevalence resultant kinship networks can...