Saving Babies? : The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening /

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It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United States is screened for more than fifty genetic disorde...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Timmermans, Stefan (Autor), Buchbinder, Mara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
Colección:Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
Temas:
Genetic screening > Social aspects > United States.
Medical screening > Social aspects > United States.
Newborn infants > Diseases > Diagnosis > Social aspects.
Newborn infants > Medical examinations > Social aspects > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
genetic screening, pregnancy, baby, fetus, obstetrics, sociology, medicine, healthcare, false positives, abortion, termination, policy, ethics, science, newborn, technology, ethnography, public health, diagnosis, diseases, prevention, normality, disability, nonfiction, medical advocacy, metabolic abnormalities, perinatology, neonatology, pediatrics, genetics, fear, anxiety, stress.
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