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Genes and human self-knowledge : historical and philosophical reflections on modern genetics / edited by Robert F. Weir, Susan C. Lawrence, and Evan Fales.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1994.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 248 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1587292483
  • 9781587292484
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Genes and human self-knowledge.DDC classification:
  • 573.2/1/01 20
LOC classification:
  • QH445.2 .G443 1994eb
NLM classification:
  • 1994 E-519
  • QH 445.2
Other classification:
  • 44.48
  • 42.66
  • 42.88
  • CC 3700
  • WB 2415
  • WG 1600
Online resources:
Contents:
A few words from a "wise" woman / Kimberly A. Quaid -- The human genome project and human identity / Dan W. Brock -- Knowledge in human genetics : some epistemological questions / Michael Ruse -- Some concerns about self-knowledge and the human genome project / Panayot Butchvarov -- Reductionism and genetics : a response / William E. Carroll -- The human genome project and epistemology / Evan Fales -- Commentary on genetic knowledge and self-understanding / Diana Fritz Cates -- Genes and osteogenesis imperfecta / Christine Carney -- Is human genetics disguised eugenics? / Diane B. Paul -- Molecular biology : how can we translate the laboratory? / Joseph D. McInerney -- Communicating genetics : journalists' role in helping the public understand genetics / Larry Thompson -- Genetic discrimination : the use of gentically based diagnostic and prognostic tests by employers and insurers / Larry Gostin.
Human capital and the discourse of control : comment on Paul / Mitchell G. Ash -- Commentary on Paul / Alan I. Marcus -- Communicating complex genetic information / Elizabeth J. Thomson -- Problems translating laboratory information for high school students : are we doomed? / Kevin Koepnick -- Reflections on the law and ethics of the human genome project / Peter David Blanck -- Why fund ELSI projects? / Robert F. Weir -- Constructs of genetic difference : race and sex / Ruth Hubbard -- Species, races, and genders : differences are not deviations / David L. Hull -- The ethics of human germ-line genetic intervention / LeRoy Walters -- Commentary : diversity / Susan C. Lawrence -- Commentary on Hull and Hubbard / David Magnus -- Response to Walters / John P. Boyle.
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Print version record.

A few words from a "wise" woman / Kimberly A. Quaid -- The human genome project and human identity / Dan W. Brock -- Knowledge in human genetics : some epistemological questions / Michael Ruse -- Some concerns about self-knowledge and the human genome project / Panayot Butchvarov -- Reductionism and genetics : a response / William E. Carroll -- The human genome project and epistemology / Evan Fales -- Commentary on genetic knowledge and self-understanding / Diana Fritz Cates -- Genes and osteogenesis imperfecta / Christine Carney -- Is human genetics disguised eugenics? / Diane B. Paul -- Molecular biology : how can we translate the laboratory? / Joseph D. McInerney -- Communicating genetics : journalists' role in helping the public understand genetics / Larry Thompson -- Genetic discrimination : the use of gentically based diagnostic and prognostic tests by employers and insurers / Larry Gostin.

Human capital and the discourse of control : comment on Paul / Mitchell G. Ash -- Commentary on Paul / Alan I. Marcus -- Communicating complex genetic information / Elizabeth J. Thomson -- Problems translating laboratory information for high school students : are we doomed? / Kevin Koepnick -- Reflections on the law and ethics of the human genome project / Peter David Blanck -- Why fund ELSI projects? / Robert F. Weir -- Constructs of genetic difference : race and sex / Ruth Hubbard -- Species, races, and genders : differences are not deviations / David L. Hull -- The ethics of human germ-line genetic intervention / LeRoy Walters -- Commentary : diversity / Susan C. Lawrence -- Commentary on Hull and Hubbard / David Magnus -- Response to Walters / John P. Boyle.

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