Full title: Mobilizing mutations : human genetics in the age of patient advocacy / Daniel Navon.

Author/creator: Navon, Daniel.

Call Numbers: G 2019/5097

Record Identifier: 74VKV50VdkMg

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm, , , , Introduction: from mutations to new kinds of people -- Genomic designation: how genetics creates new medical conditions -- Immobile mutations: nowhere to go in the 1960s and 1970s (and the exception that proves the rule) -- Leveraging mutations: going from the rare to the common in human genetics -- The loops that tie: mutations in the trading zone of autism genetics -- Assembling a new kind of person -- Mutations in the clinic: reframing illness and redirecting medical practice -- Remaking the normal versus the pathological in genetic medicine -- The future for genomic designation and the new prenatal testing landscape -- Conclusion.

Publishers: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 616.042

MMS ID: 991024271890802626