Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information is Producd and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Beacon Press, Boston, 1993

0807004189 / 9780807004180

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206 pp. xv. '1' in number line. Following the Preface, "Why This Book", Contents divided into 12 Chapters:(1) OF GENES AND PEOPLE: The Role of Genetics in Our Lives; Genes for Deafness, Genes for Being Raped; A Word about Scientists; Heredity and environment; What Are Genes?; (2) GENETIC LABELING AND THE OLD EUGENICS: The Birth of Eugenics; Genetic Labeling; Involuntary Sterilization; Eugenic Immigration Policies; (3) THE NEW EUGENICS: TESTING, SCREENING, AND CHOICE: Overt and Subtle Eugenics; Parenting, Disabilities, and Selective Abortion; Genetic Screening; Fallacies of Genetic Prediction; (4) A BRIEF ;LOOK AT GENETICS: Heredity and Genes; The Beginning: Gregor Mendel, 'Traits' and 'Factors'; From Mendel to the Double Helix; Genes and Proteins; How Chromosomes and Genes Are Duplicated; X and Y: The Sex Chromosomes; Chromosomes and Cell Division; From DNA to RNA to Proteins; How Genes Function; Sequencing the Human Genome; RFLPs: Linking DNA Patterns with Traits; (5) GENES IN CONTEXT: Definitions of Health and Disease; Individualization of Health and Illness; Genes as Blueprints; Geneticization; Diagnostic Labeling; (6) 'INHERITED TENDENCIES' : CHRONIC CONDITIONS: Some Underlying Assumptions; Conditions That Run in Families; Diabetes; High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease and Strokes; Cancer [Oncogenes and Anti-Oncogenes; Cancer Prevention and Cancer Screening; Breast Cancer; Cancer Prevention versus Cancer Therapy]; (7) 'INHERITED TENDENCIES': BEHAVIORS: Which Behaviors?; Homosexuality; Alcoholism; Problems of Linking Genes to Behavior; Pitfalls of Behavioral Research: The XYY Fallacy; (8) MANIPULATING OUR GENES: Conventional Treatments for Inherited Conditions; Modifying DNA: Somatic Cell Manipulations; 'Germ-Line Gene Therapy': Changing Future Generations; (9) GENES FOR SALE: Funds for Research, Profits for Biotechnology; Commercialization and Conflicts of Interest; Owning the Genome; What to Do?; (10) GENETIC DISCRIMINATION: EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND INSURANCE: Genetic Testing and the Schools; Genetic Discrimination in the Workplace; Measure to Counter Employment-Related Discrimination; Genetic Discrimination in Insurance (11) DNA-BASED IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS, PRIVACY, AND CIVIL LIBERTIES: DNA and the Criminal Justice System; Scientific Problems with DNA Profiles; Genetic Privacy and Civil Liberties; Employment- and Health-Related Issues; Controlling Genetic Information; (12) IN CONCLUSION . . . ; APPENDIX: MITOCHONDRIAL DNA: Mitochondria and Their DNA; Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA; Notes, pp. 169-182; Glossary, pp. 183-192; Books and Other Resources, pp. 193-198; Index, pp. 199-206. Marbled cream boards with white spine and brilliant gilt letters. Shiny dustwrapper not price-clipped ($24.00) with teal front cover and large cream Title lettering in column on left side of top half front cover, adjacent to and illustration of a human figure surrounded by a disarray of other human figures at middle right front cover; Author names in smaller cream lettering across bottom front cover.Hint of ruffling at spine ends, else unqualifiedly As New: Tight binding; sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks; Clean text. Laid in (NO offsetting): Article from Boston Globe (May 16, 1990) by Madeline Drexler, "Ruth Hubbard: an outsider on the inside: A Harvard biologist challenges the way science looks at the world.".…

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Titel
Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information is Producd and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers
Autor
Hubbard, Ruth and Elijah Wald
Verlag
Beacon Press, Boston
Erscheinungsjahr
1993
Zustand
As New
Schutzumschlag
As New
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0807004189
ISBN-13
9780807004180
Auflage
1st Edition
Abmessungen
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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