Scientists are racing to unravel the code of life in our DNA
sequences. But once we know the code, will we know what life means?
Will we know what to do with the powerful — healing, destructive,
and marketable — information we will have? 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.
General
Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 1998 |
First published: |
October 1998 |
Authors: |
Barbara Katz Rothman
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
274 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-393-35009-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-393-35009-6 |
Barcode: |
9780393350098 |
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