Towards a Healthy Baby: Congenital Disorders and the New Genetics in Primary Care

by Michael Modell and Bernadette Modell

Doctors, midwives, and health care workers spend considerable time discussing issues concerning reproduction with their patients. The importance of this aspect of care is growing as advances, for example in DNA technology and ultrasound scanning, increase the amount of information that can be given to prospective parents. Persons wishing to have children may seek advice because of concern about genetic disease. There may be a family history of genetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019261486X
• ISBN13: 9780192614865
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"