Telling genes : the story of genetic counseling in America / Alexandra Minna Stern.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2012], ©2012.

ix, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History: genetic counseling develops -- Genetic risk: an evolving calculus -- Race: tense and troubled relations -- Disability: the dynamics of difference -- Women: transforming genetic counseling -- Ethics: shades of gray in genetic counseling -- Prenatal diagnosis: the handmaiden of contemporary genetic counseling.