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Title The troubled dream of genetic medicine : ethnicity and innovation in Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell disease / Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton.

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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

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Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	616.042 W139T	Check Shelf

Description	viii, 249 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [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.
Subject	Genetic disorders -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Ethnic groups -- Diseases.
	Tay-Sachs disease -- Genetic aspects.
	Cystic fibrosis -- Genetic aspects.
	Sickle cell anemia -- Genetic aspects.
	Genetic Diseases, Inborn -- ethnology.
	Genetic Diseases, Inborn -- prevention & control.
	Anemia, Sickle Cell.
	Cystic Fibrosis.
	Health Services Accessibility.
	Tay-Sachs Disease.
Added Author	Pemberton, Stephen Gregory.
ISBN	0801883253 hardcover : cover alkaline paper
	9780801883255 hardcover : cover alkaline paper
	0801883261 paperback alkaline paper
	9780801883262 paperback alkaline paper

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