The troubled dream of genetic medicine : ethnicity and innovation in Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease

Author(s)

• Wailoo, Keith
• Pemberton, Stephen Gregory

Bibliographic Information

The troubled dream of genetic medicine : ethnicity and innovation in Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease

Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton

Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006

• : hbk
• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-222) and index

Details

• NCID: BA84444361
• ISBN:
  • 0801883253
  • 0801883261
• LCCN: 2005021184
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 249 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RB155.5
  • NLM : 2006 H-892
  • NLM : QZ 50
  • DC22 : 616/.042
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Genetic disorders -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects
  • LCSH : Ethnic groups -- Diseases
  • LCSH : Tay-Sachs disease -- Genetic aspects
  • LCSH : Cystic fibrosis -- Genetic aspects
  • LCSH : Sickle cell anemia -- Genetic aspects
  • MESH : Genetic Diseases, Inborn -- ethnology
  • MESH : Genetic Diseases, Inborn -- prevention & control
  • MESH : Anemia, Sickle Cell
  • MESH : Cystic Fibrosis
  • MESH : Health Services Accessibility
  • MESH : Tay-Sachs Disease