Testing baby : the transformation of newborn screening, parenting, and policy making /
Testing Baby is the first book to draw on parents' experiences with newborn screening in order to examine its far-reaching sociological consequences. Newborn screening occurs almost always without parents' consent and often without their knowledge or understanding, yet it has the power to...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2011
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Series: | Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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?