The troubled dream of genetic medicine
Subtitle: disease and ethnicity in Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease
By: Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton.
Contributors: Pemberton, Stephen Gregory.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Genetic disorders -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Ethnic groups -- Diseases.; Tay-Sachs disease -- Genetic aspects.; Cystic fibrosis -- Genetic aspects.; Sickle cell anemia -- Genetic aspects.; Genetic Diseases, Inborn -- ethnology.; Genetic Diseases, Inborn -- prevention & control.; Anemia, Sickle Cell.; Cystic Fibrosis.; Health Services Accessibility.; Tay-Sachs Disease.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethnic symbols in turbulent times; title: Eradicating a "Jewish gene"; title: Risky business in white America; title: A perilous lottery for the black family; title: Dreams amid diversity.