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Shaw, A (2011). ""They say Islam has a solution for everything, so why are there no guidelines for this?". Ethical dilemmas associated with the births and deaths of infants with fatal abnormalities from a small sample of Pakistani Muslim couples in Britain." Bioethics.

Shaw, A (2011). Risk and reproductive decisions: British Pakistani couples' responses to genetic counseling Social Science and Medicine, 73:111-12-.

Shaw, A and Harriss, K (2010). Migration, family and British social policy in the late 20th century: British Pakistani perspectives In: Changing Relations of Welfare: Family, Gender and Migration in Britain and Scandinavia, ed. by Fink, J. and Lundqvist, A.. Ashgate, chap. 2, pp. 103-212.

Harriss, K and Shaw, A (2009). Kinship obligations, gender and the life course: re-writing Migration from Pakistan to Britain In: Pakistani Diasporas: Culture, Conflict, and Change, ed. by V. Kalra. Oxford University Press, chap. 4, pp. 105-128.

Shaw, A (2009). Negotiating Risk: British Pakistani Experiences of Genetics Berghahn Books, Oxford and New York.

Shaw, A (2009). Ralph Russell and teaching Urdu to English-speaking adults in the community Annual of Urdu Studies, 24:249-263.

Shaw, A (2009). Genetic Councelling for Muslim Families of Pakistani and Bangladeshi Origin in Britain Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.

Shaw, A and Hurst, J (2008). "What is this Genetics anyway?" Understandings of Genetics, Illness, Causality and Inheritance Among British Pakistani Users of Genetic Services Journal of Genetic Counseling.

Shaw, A and Hurst, J (2008). "I don't see any point in telling them": attitudes to sharing genetic information in the family and carrier testing of relatives among British Pakistani adults referred to a genetics clinic Ethnicity and Health.

Charsley, K and Shaw, A (2006). South Asian Transnational Marriages in Comparative Perspective Global Networks, 6(4):331-344.

Charsley, K and Shaw, A (2006). South Asian Transnational Marriages in Comparative Perspective Global Networks, 6(4):331-344.

Harriss, K and Shaw, A (2006). Family care and transnational kinship: British Pakistani experiences In: Kinship Matters, ed. by Ebtehaj, F., Richards, M., Lindley, .B et al. Hart, Cambridge, chap. 13, pp. 259-274.

Shaw, A (2006). British Pakistani arranged transnational cousin marriages:critique, dissent and cultural continuity In: Contemporrary South Asia, Special Issue:The British South Asian Experience, ed. by J. Brown and I.Talbot. Routledge, chap. 8, pp. 211-222.

Shaw, A (2006). The contingency of the 'genetic link' in constructions of kinship and inheritance: an anthropological perspective In: Freedom and Responsibility in Reproductive Choice, ed. by Spencer, J., Pedain, A.. Hart, Cambridge, chap. 3, pp. 73-90.

Shaw, A (2006). British Pakistani arranged transnational cousin marriages: critique, dissent and cultural continuity Contemporary South Asia:211-222.

Shaw, A and Charsley, K (2006). Rishtas: adding emotion to strategy in understanding British Pakistani transnational marriages Global Networks, 6(4):405-421.

Shaw, A (2005). Changing Sex and Bending Gender In: Changing Sex and Bending Gender, ed. by A. Shaw & S Ardener. Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books, chap. 1, pp. 1-19.

Shaw, A (2005). Is it a boy, or a girl? The challenges of ambiguity In: Changing sex and bending gender, ed. by Shaw, A. Ardener, S. . Berghahn, Oxford, chap. 2, pp. 20-38.

Shaw, A (2005). British Pakistani elderly without children: an invisible minority In: Ageing without children: European and Asian perspectives on elderly access to support networks, ed. by Kreager, P. and Shroeder-Butterfill, E.. Berghahn, Oxford, chap. 7, pp. 198-222.

Shaw, A (2005). Changing sex and bending gender: an introduction In: Changing sex and bending gender, ed. by Shaw, A., Ardener, S.. Berghahn, Oxford, chap. 1, pp. 1-19.

Shaw, A and Ardener, S (ed.) (2005). Changing sex and bending gender Berghahn, Oxford.

Shaw, A (2004). Attitudes to genetic diagnosis and to the use of medical technologies in pregnancy:some British Pakistani perspectives In: Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State: Cultural Transformations in Childbearing, ed. by Maya Unnithan-Kumar. Berghahn Books, Oxford, chap. 1, pp. 1-19.

Shaw, A and Ahmed, M (2004). Translating genetic information into languages other than English: lessons from an assessment of Urdu leaflets Journal of Genetic Counseling, 13(4):321-342.

Shaw, A (2003). Genetic counseling for Muslim families of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin in Britain Encyclopedia of the Human Genome:762-766.

Shaw, A (2003). Interpreting images: diagnostic skill in the genetics clinic Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 9(1):39-55.