ISBN:
9780415496650
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (141 p)
Series Statement:
Genetics and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version The Making of a Syndrome : The making and remaking of a genetic syndrome
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Based on original ethnographic research with scientists, clinicians and families, this book examines Rett syndrome to illuminate more general issues concerning the construction and interpretation of diseases and syndromes. It derives from research with a specialist team of clinicians and scientists, and a series of families referred with a potential diagnosis of Rett syndrome, and documents the scientific, clinical, patient and family experiences over a three-year period. Although Rett syndrome itself is rare, it is one of some 2,000 such syndromes, and its genetic basis has recently been link
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Creating Conditions; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Multiple sites of a syndrome; 2. Making medical entities; 3. The culture of the clinic; 4. The transformation of patienthood; 5. Transforming Rett syndrome; 6. The making and remaking of medical classifications; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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