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