Dangerous diagnostics
Subtitle: the social power of biological information
By: Dorothy Nelkin, Laurence Tancredi.
Contributors: Tancredi, Laurence R.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Medical screening -- Social aspects; Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Social aspects; Neuropsychological tests -- Social aspects
Description: An up-to-date look at current developments in diagnostic technology ; raises disturbing questions about the threat to our traditional concepts of privacy and personal antonomy.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [179]-195.
Includes index.