The PKU paradox : a short history of a genetic disease /
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013.
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| Serie: | Johns Hopkins biographies of disease
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Sommario:
- The discovery of PKU as a metabolic disorder
- PKU as a form of cognitive impairment
- Testing and treating newborns, 1950-1962
- The campaign for mandated testing
- Sources of skepticism
- More paradigms for PKU
- Living with PKU
- The perplexing problem of maternal PKU
- Who should procreate? Perspectives on reproductive choice and responsibility in postwar America
- Newborn screening expands.