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A study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize and ultimately control individuals. The ethical, social and legal implications of technologies that can lead to new forms of discrimination are also included.

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A Paperback / softback by Dorothy Nelkin, Laurence Tancredi

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/03/1994
    ISBN13: 9780226571294, 978-0226571294
    ISBN10: 0226571297
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    A study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize and ultimately control individuals. The ethical, social and legal implications of technologies that can lead to new forms of discrimination are also included.

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