Zócalo Public SquareScreening Babies, Stopping Asteroids, and Making Laptops – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Screening Babies, Stopping Asteroids, and Making Laptops https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/12/05/screening-babies-stopping-asteroids-and-making-laptops/books/the-six-point-inspection/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/12/05/screening-babies-stopping-asteroids-and-making-laptops/books/the-six-point-inspection/#respond Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:01:00 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=43035 The nutshell: Almost every American newborn is screened for more than 50 genetic disorders—most of which you haven’t heard of. UCLA sociologist Timmermans and UNC anthropologist Buchbinder spent three years following doctors and patients in a Southern California clinic specializing in the treatment of children’s metabolic disorders to find out how these tests affect families.
Literary lovechild of: Francis S. Collins’ The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine and Dena S. Davis’ Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children’s Futures. You’ll find it on your bookshelf if: You wish that the Rosemary’s Baby gene had been detectable a little sooner.

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]]> The nutshell: Almost every American newborn is screened for more than 50 genetic disorders—most of which you haven’t heard of. UCLA sociologist Timmermans and UNC anthropologist Buchbinder spent three years following doctors and patients in a Southern California clinic specializing in the treatment of children’s metabolic disorders to find out how these tests affect families.

Literary lovechild of: Francis S. Collins’ The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine and Dena S. Davis’ Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children’s Futures.

You’ll find it on your bookshelf if: You wish that the Rosemary’s Baby gene had been detectable a little sooner.

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