PKU Paradox (ePub)
A Short History of a Genetic Disease
(Sprache: Englisch)
How did a disease of marginal public health significance acquire paradigmatic status in public health and genetics? In a lifetime of practice, most physicians will never encounter a single case of PKU. Yet every physician in the industrialized world learns...
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How did a disease of marginal public health significance acquire paradigmatic status in public health and genetics? In a lifetime of practice, most physicians will never encounter a single case of PKU. Yet every physician in the industrialized world learns about the disease in medical school and, since the early 1960s, the newborn heel stick test for PKU has been mandatory in many countries. Diane B. Paul and Jeffrey P. Brosco's beautifully written book explains this paradox.PKU (phenylketonuria) is a genetic disorder that causes severe cognitive impairment if it is not detected and treated with a strict and difficult diet. Programs to detect PKU and start treatment early are deservedly considered a public health success story. Some have traded on this success to urge expanded newborn screening, defend basic research in genetics, and confront proponents of genetic determinism. In this context, treatment for PKU is typically represented as a simple matter of adhering to a low-phenylalanine diet. In reality, the challenges of living with PKU are daunting.In this first general history of PKU, a historian and a pediatrician explore how a rare genetic disease became the object of an unprecedented system for routine testing. The PKU Paradox is informed by interviews with scientists, clinicians, policymakers, and individuals who live with the disease. The questions it raises touch on ongoing controversies about newborn screening and what happens to blood samples collected at birth.
Autoren-Porträt von Diane B. Paul
Diane B. Paul is a professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a research associate at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Jeffrey P. Brosco, M.D., is a professor of clinical pediatrics at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. He serves as chair of the Pediatric Bioethics Committee at Jackson Memorial Hospital and is associate director of the Mailman Center for Child Development.
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- Autor: Diane B. Paul
- 2013, Englisch
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN-10: 1421411326
- ISBN-13: 9781421411323
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.11.2013
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