Imperfect Pregnancies : A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis /
In the 1960s, thanks to the development of prenatal diagnosis, medicine found a new object of study: the living fetus. At first, prenatal testing was proposed only to women at a high risk of giving birth to an impaired child. But in the following decades, such testing has become routine. In Imperfec...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2017.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction : scrutinized fetuses
- Born imperfect : birth defects before prenatal diagnosis
- Karyotypes
- Human malformations
- From prenatal diagnosis to prenatal screening
- Sex chromosome aneuploidies
- PND and new genomics approaches
- Conclusion : PND's slippery slopes, imagined and real.