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Testing Baby : The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking /
Within forty-eight hours after birth, the heel of every baby in the United States has been pricked and the blood sent for compulsory screening to detect or rule out a large number of disorders. Newborn screening is expanding rapidly, fueled by the prospect of saving lives. Yet many lives are also ch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Saving Babies, Changing Lives
- Chapter 2. Diagnostic Odysseys, Old and New: How Newborn Screening Transforms Parents' Encounters with Disease
- Chapter 3. Specters in the Room: Parenting in the Shadow of Cystic Fibrosis
- Chapter 4. Encounters with Expertise: Parents and Health Care Professionals
- Chapter 5. A House on Fire: How Private Experiences Ignite Public Voices
- Chapter 6. Brave New Worlds: Visible in a Single Drop of Blood?
- Notes
- References
- Index