Testing baby : the transformation of newborn screening, parenting, and policy making / Rachel Grob.

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011], ©2011.

xi, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

Saving babies, changing lives -- Diagnostic odysseys, old and new : how newborn screening transforms parents' encounters with disease -- Specters in the room : parenting in the shadow of cystic fibrosis -- Encounters with expertise : parents and health care professionals -- A house on fire : how private experiences ignite public voices -- Brave new worlds : visible in a single drop of blood?

Includes bibliographical references and index.