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The Code of codes : scientific and social issues in the human genome project
- Title
- The Code of codes : scientific and social issues in the human genome project / edited by Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993, ©1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RB155 .C575 1992 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 397 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-374) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0674136462 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- ocm28401148
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries