The PKU Paradox: A Short History of a Genetic Disease

by Diane B. Paul and Jeffrey P. Brosco

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421411318
• ISBN13: 9781421411316
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"