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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Löwy, Ilana, 1948- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.