Testing fate : Tay-Sachs disease and the right to be responsible / Shelley Z. Reuter.

  • Reuter, Shelley Z. (Shelley Zipora), 1968-
Date:
[2016]
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About this work

Also known as

Tay-Sachs disease and the right to be responsible

Publication/Creation

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

Physical description

264 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-250) and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9780816699957
  • 081669995X
  • 9780816699964
  • 0816699968