Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are
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Book Overview
Barbara Katz Rothman's warm, learned, passionate, and humorous voice is just the one we need to guide us through some of the most loaded issues and technologies of our time -- ones that bear on the most intimate aspects of our lives. Her astute observations about the new genetics are combined with personal reflections: about raising a black child; the risks of cancer; midwives and pregnancy; the social web into which we are born; motherhood; time, growth, chance, and all the indefinable things that make us human. She helps us to think about the place of genetic science in our own lives, its role in our social world, and how we choose to think about human life itself. A genetic map will take us places, but we need an imagination to see the relationship between DNA and public policy, between genes and the society we live in, and to understand why human life can't be reduced to genetics. Rothman inspires that imagination, in a book that is essential reading.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393047032
ISBN13:9780393047035
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
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powerful critique of science of genetics
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This book helps us better understand the limits of genetic research and testing, and the dangers of believing that this magic new bullet will solve a host of social and medical "problems". For women especially, this book is must reading.
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