The Code of Codes

Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project

PAPERBACK

$38.00 • £33.95 • €34.95

ISBN 9780674136465

Publication Date: 01/01/1993

384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

1 halftones, 23 line illustrations, 12 tables

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Preface to the Paperback Edition
I. History, Politics, and Genetics
- 1. Out of Eugenics: The Historical Politics of the Human Genome [Daniel J. Kevles]
- 2. A History of the Science and Technology Behind Gene Mapping and Sequencing [Horace Freeland Judson]
II. Genetics, Technology, and Medicine
- 3. A Vision of the Grail [Walter Gilbert]
- 4. The Challenges to Technology and Informatics [Charles Cantor]
- 5. DNA-Based Medicine: Prevention and Therapy [C. Thomas Caskey]
- 6. Biology and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century [Leroy Hood]
- 7. A Personal View of the Project [James D. Watson]
III. Ethics, Law, And Society
- 8. The Social Power of Genetic Information [Dorothy Nelkin]
- 9. DNA Fingerprinting: Science, Law, and the Ultimate Identifier [Eric Lander]
- 10. Clairvoyance and Caution: Repercussions from the Human Genome Project [Nancy Wexler]
- 11. Genetic Technology and Reproductive Choice: An Ethics for Autonomy [Ruth Schwartz Cowan]
- 12. Health Insurance, Employment Discrimination, and the Genetics Revolution [Henry T. Greely]
- 13. Nature, Nurture, and the Human Genome Project [Evelyn Fox Keller]
- 14. Reflections [Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood]
Postscript to the Paperback Edition
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Glossary
Contributors
Index

Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project