Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America Tapa dura - 2012 - 1st Edición
de Alexandra Minna Stern
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Alexandra Minna Stern traces the development of genetic counseling from the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century to the current era of human genomics. Drawing from archival records, patient files, and oral histories, Stern presents the fascinating story of the growth of genetic counseling practices, principles, and professionals.
The best and most complete exploration of the history of genetic counseling to date. Stern's masterful account includes a lucid analysis of incendiary debates involving race, disability, and abortion that have surrounded the field of genetic counseling and deftly navigates the troubled historical waters between genetics and eugenics.--Paul A. Lombardo, author of Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell
Stern's beautifully nuanced analysis illuminates the legacies and challenges of a profession on the front lines of genomic medicine. This groundbreaking book respects the voices of practitioners, clients, and critics alike and is essential reading for anyone with a problematic genetic inheritance--which is all of us.--Alice Wexler, author of The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
Alexandra Stern has written a rich and thorough history of the development of genetic counseling as a profession. It will be widely received as a definitive work that captures and explains some of the inherent tensions in the role of the genetic counselor, with a critical but engagingly sympathetic analysis.--Troy Duster, Chancellor's Professor and Senior Fellow, Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley
--Troy Duster, Chancellor's Professor and Senior Fellow, Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, University of California, BerkeleyDetalles
- Título Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America
- Autor Alexandra Minna Stern
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 248
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Johns Hopkins University Press
- Fecha de publicación 2012-09
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781421406671 / 1421406675
- Peso 1 libras (0.45 kg)
- Dimensiones 9 x 6 x 0.9 pulgadas (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Genetic Counseling - United States, Genetic Counseling - history - United States
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2012002232
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.196
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