Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Incest

Sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that they are forbidden by law to marry.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that they are forbidden by law to marry.

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

/ethnol /psychol permitted

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History Note

67

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Previous Indexing

  • Paraphilias (1966)

MeSH Hierarchy

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  1. I01w.880w.735w.442w

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NLM Classification

WM 607

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Incest. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007179. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007179
  2. Incest. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest
  3. Incest. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127683