The Code of codes : scientific and social issues in the Human Genome Project /

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Other Authors: Kevles, Daniel J., 1939-, Hood, Leroy E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • Out of eugenics: the historical politics of the human genome / Daniel J. Kevles
  • A history of the science and technology behind gene mapping and sequencing / Horace Freeland Judson
  • A vision of the grail / Walter Gilbert
  • The challenges to technology and informatics / Charles Cantor
  • DNA-based medicine: prevention and therapy / C. Thomas Caskey
  • Biology and medicine in the twenty-first century / Leroy Hood
  • A personal view of the project / James D. Watson
  • The social power of genetic information / Dorothy Nelkin
  • DNA fingerprinting: science, law, and the ultimate identifier / Eric Lander.
  • Clairvoyance and caution: repercussions from the human genome project / Nancy Wexler
  • Genetic technology and reproductive choice: an ethics for autonomy / Ruth Schwartz Cowan
  • Health insurance, employment discrimination, and the genetics revolution / Henry T. Greely
  • Nature, nurture, and the human genome project / Evelyn Fox Keller
  • Reflections / Kevles, Hood.