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

Author:: Grob, Rachel, 1966-
Published:: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
Copyright Date:: ©2011
Physical Description:: xi, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

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Critical issues in health and medicine

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 : can they be seen in a drop of blood?.

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ISBN:

9780813551357 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813551358 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813551364 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813551366 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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