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Testing Baby: The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

Rachel Grob

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Description:Within forty-eight hours after birth, the heel of every baby in the United States has been pricked and the blood sent for compulsory screening to detect or rule out a large number of disorders. Newborn screening is expanding rapidly, fueled by the prospect of saving lives. Yet many lives are also changed by it in ways not yet recognized.Testing Baby is the first book to draw on parents’ experiences with newborn screening in order to examine its far-reaching sociological consequences. Rachel Grob’s cautionary tale also explores the powerful ways that parents’ narratives have shaped this emotionally charged policy arena. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Testing Baby: The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine). To get started finding Testing Baby: The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Within forty-eight hours after birth, the heel of every baby in the United States has been pricked and the blood sent for compulsory screening to detect or rule out a large number of disorders. Newborn screening is expanding rapidly, fueled by the prospect of saving lives. Yet many lives are also changed by it in ways not yet recognized.Testing Baby is the first book to draw on parents’ experiences with newborn screening in order to examine its far-reaching sociological consequences. Rachel Grob’s cautionary tale also explores the powerful ways that parents’ narratives have shaped this emotionally charged policy arena. 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Testing Baby: The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine). To get started finding Testing Baby: The Transformation of Newborn Screening, Parenting, and Policymaking (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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