Testing Baby : : The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking / / Rachel Grob.
Within forty-eight hours after birth, the heel of every baby in the United States has been pricked and the blood sent for compulsory screening to detect or rule out a large number of disorders. Newborn screening is expanding rapidly, fueled by the prospect of saving lives. Yet many lives are also ch...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 p.) :; 20 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Saving Babies, Changing Lives
- Chapter 2. Diagnostic Odysseys, Old and New: How Newborn Screening Transforms Parents' Encounters with Disease
- Chapter 3. Specters in the Room: Parenting in the Shadow of Cystic Fibrosis
- Chapter 4. Encounters with Expertise: Parents and Health Care Professionals
- Chapter 5. A House on Fire: How Private Experiences Ignite Public Voices
- Chapter 6. Brave New Worlds: Visible in a Single Drop of Blood?
- Notes
- References
- Index