Before Birth: Prenatal Testing for Genetic Disease - Hardcover

Nightingale Ph.D. M.D., Elena O; Goodman, Melissa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674429168 ISBN 13: 9780674429161

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Provides information on prenatal tests, including how they are performed, what they reveal, and what their limitations are.

About this title

About the Author

Nightingale is Special Advisor to the President, Senior Program Officer of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Senior Advisor to the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. She is also Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard University Medical School and Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at Georgetown University Medical School.

Nightingale is Special Advisor to the President, Senior Program Officer of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Senior Advisor to the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. She is also Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard University Medical School and Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at Georgetown University Medical School.

Goodman is conducting research at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on agriculture and settlement in South America.

From the Back Cover

'An extremely informative, well-written and amply diagrammed book, which should be of great value to laypersons and their physicians who require further genetic review and background for present and future gene therapies.' - Theodore Kushnick, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674429168
• ISBN 13: 9780674429161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 123