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Moments of truth in genetic medicine / Susan Lindee.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Lindee, M. Susan, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medical genetics--United States--History.
Medical genetics.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (283 p.)
Edition:
Johns Hopkins paperback edition.
Place of Publication:
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Language Note:
English
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Babies' blood: phenylketonuria and the rise of public health genetics
Provenance and the pedigree: Victor McKusick's field work with the Pennsylvania Amish
Squashed spiders: standardizing the human chromosomes and other unruly things
Two peas in a pod: twin science and the rise of human behavior genetics
Jewish genes: history, emotion, and familial dysautonomia.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 8, 2016).
ISBN:
0-8018-9915-X
OCLC:
794701439

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