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The troubled dream of genetic medicine : ethnicity and innovation in Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease
- Title
- The troubled dream of genetic medicine : ethnicity and innovation in Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease / Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton.
- Author
- Wailoo, Keith.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Pemberton, Stephen Gregory.
- Description
- viii, 249 p.; 21 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-222) and index.
- Contents
- Ethnic symbols in conflicted times -- Eradicating a "Jewish gene": promises and pitfalls in the fight against Tay-Sachs disease -- Risky business in white America: gene therapy and other ventures in the treatment of cystic fibrosis -- A perilous lottery for the Black family: sickle cells, social justice, and the new therapeutic gamble -- Dreams amid diversity.
- Call Number
- JFD 06-12145
- ISBN
- 0801883253 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- 0801883261 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005021184
- 9780801883262
- OCLC
- 61211245
- Author
- Wailoo, Keith.
- Title
- The troubled dream of genetic medicine : ethnicity and innovation in Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease / Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton.
- Imprint
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-222) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Pemberton, Stephen Gregory.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780801883262
- Research Call Number
- JFD 06-12145