This text provides a guide for hereditary genetic disorders in the USA. It provides guidance on questions to ask doctors and genetic councillors, how health-care systems, government policies and insurance companies influence the options as well as pointing to further information and counselling. Through the stories of real families and the choices thay made about genetic testing (for diseases such as sickle-cell anemia, Huntingdon disease and muscular distrophy) the author helps the readers think through their own alternatives and discuss them with relatives.
- ISBN10 0813524466
- ISBN13 9780813524467
- Publish Date 1 May 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 June 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rutgers University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English