Testing fate : Tay-Sachs disease and the right to be responsible / Shelley Z. Reuter.

Tay-Sachs disease and the right to be responsible

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

264 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-250) and index.

Diagnosing the genuine "Jewish type" : medical racialism and anti-immigration legislation in the United States -- Governing disease : cultivating the will to health in Jewish immigrants to the United Kingdom -- "Plainer than words can describe" : medical portraiture and the visualization of a Jewish disease -- The unethics of looking at disease/disability : online representations of Tay-Sachs -- The right to be responsible : agency and contemporary carrier screening.