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

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Author / Creator:Grob, Rachel, 1966-
Imprint:New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)
Language:English
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11148836
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ISBN:9780813552026
0813552028
0813551358
0813551366
9780813551357
9780813551364
1280492392
9781280492396
9786613587626
6613587621
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
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Summary: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 alter such things as family dynamics at the household level, the context of parenting, the way we manage disease identity, and how parents' interests are understood and solicited in policy debates. Rachel Grob's cautionary tale explores the powerful ways that parents' narratives.
Other form:Print version: Grob, Rachel, 1966- Testing baby. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2011