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Author Reuter, Shelley Z. (Shelley Zipora), 1968- author.

Title Testing fate : Tay-Sachs disease and the right to be responsible / Shelley Z. Reuter
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Diagnosing the genuine "Jewish type" : medical racialism and anti-immigration legislation in the United States -- Governing disease : cultivating the will to health in Jewish immigrants to the United Kingdom -- "Plainer than words can describe" : medical portraiture and the visualization of a Jewish disease -- The unethics of looking at disease/disability : online representations of Tay-Sachs -- The right to be responsible : agency and contemporary carrier screening
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2016)
Subject Tay-Sachs disease.
Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- History
Tay-Sachs disease -- History
Racism -- History
Jews -- History.
Tay-Sachs disease -- Ethnology
Tay-Sachs Disease -- history
Tay-Sachs Disease -- ethnology
Jews -- history
Racism -- history
Genetic Testing -- history
Tay-Sachs Disease
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL -- History.
Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis
Jews
Racism
Tay-Sachs disease
SUBJECT United States
United Kingdom
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016007424
ISBN 9781452951881
1452951888
9781452951898
1452951896
Other Titles Tay-Sachs disease and the right to be responsible