Testing baby : the transformation of newborn screening, parenting, and policy making / Rachel Grob.
Material type: TextSeries: Critical issues in health and medicinePublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813552026
- 0813552028
- 1280492392
- 9781280492396
- 9786613587626
- 6613587621
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- Newborn infants -- Diseases -- Diagnosis
- Medical screening
- Newborn screening
- Newborn infants
- Parents
- Medical policy
- Neonatal Screening
- Infant, Newborn
- Parents
- Health Policy
- Nouveau-nés -- Maladies -- Diagnostic
- Dépistage (Médecine)
- Dépistage néonatal
- Nouveau-nés
- Parents
- Politique sanitaire
- broader terms
- MEDICAL -- Public Health
- Medical screening
- Newborn infants -- Diseases -- Diagnosis
- Neugeborenenkrankheit
- Reihenuntersuchung
- Gesundheitspolitik
- Eltern
- 362.198/9201 22
- RJ255.5 .G76 2011eb
- 2011 K-381
- WS 420
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Saving babies, changing lives -- Diagnostic odysseys, old and new : how newborn screening transforms parents, encounters with disease -- Specters in the room : parenting in the shadow of cystic fibrosis -- Encounters with expertise : parents and health care professionals -- A house on fire : how private experiences ignite public voices -- Brave new worlds : can they be seen in a drop of blood?
Testing Baby is the first book to draw on parents' experiences with newborn screening in order to examine its far-reaching sociological consequences. Newborn screening occurs almost always without parents' consent and often without their knowledge or understanding, yet it has the power to alter such things as family dynamics at the household level, the context of parenting, the way we manage disease identity, and how parents' interests are understood and solicited in policy debates. Rachel Grob's cautionary tale explores the powerful ways that parents' narratives.
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