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Genes and Future People: Philosophical Issues in Human Genetics |
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From Book News, Inc.
Based in part on a graduate seminar on biomedical ethics he taught at McGill U., Gannon discusses the moral implications of advances in genetics that allow unprecedented intervention in human development via genetic testing, gene therapy, genetic enhancement, cloning, and life span extension techniques. The author distinguishes between negative and positive eugenics.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates About Human Heredity (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences) |
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Book News, Inc.
Analyzing hundred of stories from US magazine and television from the 1920s to the 1990s, Condit (speech communications, U. of Georgia) explores the societal hope and fears about genetics in the course of the century. She identifies three central and enduring public worries: that genes are deterministic arbiters of human fate; that genetic research can be used for discrimination; and that advances in genetics encourage perfectionist thinking about children. -- Co... >> |
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Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project |
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From Library Journal
Another popularization of the Human Genome Project, this one has the distinction of being the first published as an anthology, and among its contributors are some leading scholars, scientists, and social critics. The three parts of the book present essays covering topics in "History, Politics, and Genetics," "Genetics, Technology, and Medicine," and "Ethics, Law, and Society." Some of the essays are quite provocative, especially editor Kevles's "Out of Eugenics:... >> |
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