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The book of life : a personal and ethical guide to race, normality, and the implications of the human genome project / Barbara Katz Rothman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c2001.Description: 272 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0807004510
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Contents:
Mapping the Past: The Macroeugenics of Race -- Inventing It -- Seeing It -- Science and Politics of Race -- Through a Crystal, Darkly -- (American) Racism -- For Whom the Bell Curves -- Rates and Races -- Human Genome Diversity Project -- Writing the Body: The Genetics of Illness -- Tale of Two Diseases -- Quest -- From the Breast -- Cancer as (Not) a Genetic Disease -- Understanding Cancer -- Early Detection -- Breast Cancer -- Contradictions -- Imagining the Future: The Microeugenics of Procreation -- Gates of Life -- Spoiling the Pregnancy -- Get a Map -- Beyond Prenatal Diagnosis -- Now You Can Choose! -- Determination -- On Order -- In Search of Imagination -- Existential Orphanhood and Identity Politics: On Jews, Dwarfs and Gays -- After I Finish.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks QH445.2.R68 2001 1 Available 33710000878954

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-264) and index.

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Mapping the Past: The Macroeugenics of Race -- Inventing It -- Seeing It -- Science and Politics of Race -- Through a Crystal, Darkly -- (American) Racism -- For Whom the Bell Curves -- Rates and Races -- Human Genome Diversity Project -- Writing the Body: The Genetics of Illness -- Tale of Two Diseases -- Quest -- From the Breast -- Cancer as (Not) a Genetic Disease -- Understanding Cancer -- Early Detection -- Breast Cancer -- Contradictions -- Imagining the Future: The Microeugenics of Procreation -- Gates of Life -- Spoiling the Pregnancy -- Get a Map -- Beyond Prenatal Diagnosis -- Now You Can Choose! -- Determination -- On Order -- In Search of Imagination -- Existential Orphanhood and Identity Politics: On Jews, Dwarfs and Gays -- After I Finish.