| The Book of Life: A Personal and Ethical Guide to Race, Normality and the Human Gene Study Contributor(s): Rothman, Barbara Katz (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807004510 ISBN-13: 9780807004517 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $21.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2001 Annotation: The much heralded "completion" of the human genome project in the year 2000 raises urgent questions: Do we now have a map of who we are? How will we control the uses of the potentially healing but also likely destructive and highly marketable information genetics brings us? Using her own life as well as her research, Barbara Katz Rothman presents an impassioned defense for the theory that humans are not "ready made from the factory", as one recent popular book on genetics put it, but social beings who grow, mature, and learn who they are. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Business & Economics | Business Ethics |
| Dewey: 174.966 |
| LCCN: 2001018085 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.54" W x 8.24" (0.73 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "This is an exciting book. Its plea that genetic theory be integrated into social thought-rather than the other way around-is wonderfully lucid and well informed. A pleasure to read." --Vivian Gornick, author of The End of the Novel of Love |