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

  • Grob, Rachel, 1966-
Date:
[2011], ©2011
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Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

xi, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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?

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    History of Medicine
    USA /GRO
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ISBN

  • 9780813551357
  • 0813551358
  • 9780813551364
  • 0813551366