The troubled dream of genetic medicine : ethnicity and innovation in Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease /

Annotation Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference become entangled with political debates about cultural and group differences in America? Such issues are a conspicuous part of the historie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wailoo, Keith
Otros Autores: Pemberton, Stephen Gregory
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Temas:
Genetic disorders > Research > Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethnic groups > Diseases.
Tay-Sachs disease > Genetic aspects.
Cystic fibrosis > Genetic aspects.
Sickle cell anemia > Genetic aspects.
Sickle cell anemia.
Cystic fibrosis.
Health services accessibility.
Tay-Sachs disease.
Genetic Diseases, Inborn > ethnology
Genetic Diseases, Inborn > prevention & control
Anemia, Sickle Cell
Cystic Fibrosis
Health Services Accessibility
Tay-Sachs Disease
Maladies génétiques > Recherche > Aspect moral.
Groupes ethniques > Maladies.
Maladie de Tay-Sachs > Aspect génétique.
Mucoviscidose > Aspect génétique.
Drépanocytose > Aspect génétique.
Drépanocytose.
Mucoviscidose.
Services de santé > Accessibilité.
Maladie de Tay-Sachs.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Genetic.
MEDICAL > Genetics.
Tay-Sachs disease
Sickle cell anemia
Health services accessibility
Cystic fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis > Genetic aspects
Ethnic groups > Diseases
Sickle cell anemia > Genetic aspects
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ethnic symbols in conflicted times
  • Eradicating a "Jewish gene": promises and pitfalls in the fight against Tay-Sachs disease
  • Risky business in white America: gene therapy and other ventures in the treatment of cystic fibrosis
  • A perilous lottery for the Black family: sickle cells, social justice, and the new therapeutic gamble
  • Dreams amid diversity.

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