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BL
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716343
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b536026
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edited by D.N. Raine.
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Medico-Social Management of Inherited Metabolic Disease : : a Monograph Derived from the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium of The Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism\ edited by D.N. Raine.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1977
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(310 pages)
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9401161739
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: 9789401161732
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| Contents
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The Nature and Size of the Problem --;1 The need for a national policy for the management of inherited metabolic disease --;2 Genetic screening and allied services: structure, process and objective --;Present Methods of Management --;3 The role of the paediatrician --;4 Management of dietary treatment in the home --;5 Residential management --;Community Reaction to Present Practice --;6 Parent reaction to medical care and screening --;7 Screening for Tay --;Sachs disease --;8 Genetic counselling clinics --;9 The coming of the second genetic code: eugenic abortion in the United Kingdom --;Aspects of Management Requiring Central Policy --;10 The basis for prescriptive screening --;11 Resources for nutritional treatment: basic principles and a national 'Food Bank' --;12 Detection of heterozygotes --;13 Prenatal diagnosis --;14 The phenylketonuria register for the United Kingdom --;15 Computerized central registers --;16 Mechanized storage and retrieval of information --;17 Computer-aided diagnosis of inherited metabolic disease --;The Fourth Milner Lecture --;18 The biochemical autopsy: a tool for studies of genetically-determined brain disorders.
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The study of inherited metabolic disease became a subject of more than academic interest in 1953 when Bickel, Gerrard and Hickmans dis- covered that the totally disabling consequences of phenylketonuria could be prevented if treatment was instituted in the first months of life.
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Internal medicine.
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Medicine.
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Pediatrics.
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RC627.8E358 1977
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D N Raine
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