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DNA: Promise and Peril

Out of Print
By: Linda L McCabe and Edward R B McCabe
354 pages, Photos
DNA: Promise and Peril
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  • DNA: Promise and Peril ISBN: 9780520251878 Hardback Feb 2008 Out of Print #173600
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About this book

The genetic revolution has provided incredibly valuable information about our DNA, information that can be used to benefit and inform - but also to judge, discriminate, and abuse.
An essential reference for living in today's world, this book gives the background information critical to understanding how genetics is now affecting our everyday lives. Written in clear, lively language, it gives a comprehensive view of exciting recent discoveries and explores the ethical, legal, and social issues that have arisen with each new development.

Contents

Foreword by Victor A. McKusick Acknowledgments 1. DNA Sequence Does Not Equal Destiny 2. What Is Genomics? 3. Genetic Determinism 4. The Evolution and Deconstruction of Human-Centered Biology 5. Race and Ethnicity: Your History Is Written in Your Genes 6. Gender as a Spectrum, Not a Dichotomy 7. Genome-Based Forensics 8. When Genes Belong to Groups and Not Individuals 9. Genes as Commodities: Ownership of Genes by Business Interests 10. Protection against Genetic Discrimination: The New Civil Right 11. Reproductive Technologies: On the Road to Designer Babies? 12. Reproductive Cloning: From Farm Animals to Pets to Humans? 13. Therapeutic Cloning and Regenerative Medicine 14. Gene Therapy: Can the Promise Be Fulfilled? 15. Large Population Assessments: The Foundation for Genomic Medicine 16. Hidden Destiny: Unbounded by Your DNA Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

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Biography

Linda L. McCabe is Adjunct Associate Professor of Human Genetics and Pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Edward R. B. McCabe is Co-Director, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics; Mattel Executive Endowed Chair of Pediatrics; Physician-in-Chief, Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA; and Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Bioengineering at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA. Together they wrote How to Succeed in Academics. Edward R.B. McCabe is coeditor, with Thomas P. Burris, of Nuclear Receptors and Genetic Disease (2001).

Out of Print
By: Linda L McCabe and Edward R B McCabe
354 pages, Photos
Media reviews

Goes a long way toward exploring these issues in a painstaking yet readable scholarly treatise... Throughout, they make a convincing case that we are not our genome alone. --New England Journal of Medicine "The book is anything but dry reporting... An enjoyable and stimulating read for specialists in the field and the curious public alike." --Science (Aaas) "Readers will come away with a realistic and encouraging perspective on medical genetics, providing that neither fantastic optimism nor abject fear is necessary to make the true story of DNA exciting."--Qtly Review of Biology "Readers will come away with a realistic and encouraging perspective on medical genetics, proving that neither fantastic optimism nor abject fear is necessary to make the true story of DNA exciting."--Qtly Review of Biology

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