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Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 1/2019

01-03-2019 | Review Article

Ilana Löwy: Imperfect pregnancies: a history of birth defects & prenatal diagnosis

Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2017, 277 pp

Author: Y. M. Barilan

Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy | Issue 1/2019

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In 1946, obstetrician Naghib Riad from the University of Geneva published a book titled “How to predict and select the sex of the unborn child”. Professor Rene Koenig, from the University of Geneva, and Professor Jacques Pirenne, member of the Belgian Academy of Sciences wrote laudatory introductions to the book. The book was also successful. Twenty years after its publication an Italian edition came out (Riad 1965). …
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Title
Ilana Löwy: Imperfect pregnancies: a history of birth defects & prenatal diagnosis
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2017, 277 pp
Author
Y. M. Barilan
Publication date
01-03-2019
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 1386-7423
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8633
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-018-9849-7

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