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Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information

1990-02-16

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The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome epidemic and the numerous controversies surrounding testing for human immunodeficiency virus have loudly and prominently displayed the main issues of this book. We have had serious debates on confidentiality, employment rights, eligibility for insurance, screening of various populations (military recruits, marriage license applicants), testing for research and epidemiology, a...

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Literature Corpus work: 21a1a018-0629-5502-a17c-bb01ae2bedde
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1990.03440070106048

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