A01=Dorothy Nelkin
A01=Laurence Tancredi
Author_Dorothy Nelkin
Author_Laurence Tancredi
Category=JMBT
Category=PDR
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226571294
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 14 x 20mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 1994
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. Nelkin and Tancredi explore the ethical, social and legal implications of technologies that can lead to new forms of discrimination in the name of standardized, objective measurements. They caution against the creation of an underclass deemed unemployable, untrainable or uninsurable by such diagnostic tests.
