Life Histories of Genetic Disease : Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics /

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Medical geneticists began mapping the chromosomal infrastructure piece by piece in the 1970s by focusing on what was known about individual genetic disorders. Five decades later, their infrastructure had become an edifice for prevention, allowing today's expecting parents to choose to test pren...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hogan, Andrew J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Medical genetics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical genetics.
Genetic disorders > Diagnosis.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Maladies genetiques > Diagnostic.
Genetique medicale > Aspect moral.
Genetique medicale.
Genetics, Medical
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Genetic Diseases, Inborn > prevention & control
Genetics, Medical > history
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : pursuing a better birth
  • Genetics detectives
  • Chromosomal cartography
  • The genome's morbid anatomy
  • Seeing with molecules
  • Institutionalized disorders
  • Getting the whole picture
  • Epilogue : the genomic gaze.

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