Testing Fate : Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reuter, Shelley Z. (Shelley Zipora), 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tay-Sachs disease.
Racism.
Jews.
Human chromosome abnormalities > Diagnosis.
MEDICAL > History.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Juifs > Histoire.
Racisme > Histoire.
Maladie de Tay-Sachs > Histoire.
Chromosomes humains > Anomalies > Diagnostic > Histoire.
Maladie de Tay-Sachs.
Tay-Sachs Disease
Genetic Testing > history
Racism > history
Jews > history
Tay-Sachs Disease > ethnology
Tay-Sachs Disease > history
Tay-Sachs disease > Ethnology.
Jews > History.
Racism > History.
Tay-Sachs disease > History.
Human chromosome abnormalities > Diagnosis > History.
United Kingdom
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Diagnosing the genuine "Jewish type" : medical racialism and anti-immigration legislation in the United States
  • Governing disease : cultivating the will to health in Jewish immigrants to the United Kingdom
  • "Plainer than words can describe" : medical portraiture and the visualization of a Jewish disease
  • The unethics of looking at disease/disability : online representations of Tay-Sachs
  • The right to be responsible : agency and contemporary carrier screening.

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