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August 2009, Vol 99, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1348-1349
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.161554

LETTERS

CLINICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN MANAGING CARRIER DETECTION

Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD and Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD

Lainie Friedman Ross is with the Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Surgery, and the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, IL. Ellen Wright Clayton is with the Departments of Pediatrics and Law and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to: Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 6082, Chicago IL 60637 (e-mail: Lross@uchicago.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

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Figure 1
From the series Hidden Poverty in Illinois (2007) by photographer Kuni Takahashi. Kandee Neff, 19, reads a book on her bed on September 20, 2007, in the trailer where she lives with her father Lee, 63, and mother Sarah, 64, in Murdock, IL. Lee receives a disability check of $813 per month, and Sarah, who suffers from diabetes, earns $244 per month from her part-time job at Peace Meal but cannot afford the medication to control her diabetes. Printed with permission.

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