The genetics revolution : history, fears, and future of a life-altering science /

What will our lives be like fifty years from now? What will we know about ourselves as humans, and how will that affect our lives? It's impossible to know the future for certain, but one thing we do know-perhaps nothing will alter our future more than the Genetics Revolution of the past thirty-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Rose M., 1935-
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Medical genetics > Research > Moral and ethical aspects.
Genetic engineering > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human cloning > Moral and ethical aspects.
Genetics, Medical > ethics.
Genetics, Medical > trends.
Ethics, Medical.
Genetic Techniques > ethics.
Genetic Techniques > trends.
Genome, Human.
Stem Cells.
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005019205.html
Table of Contents:
  • Recombining DNA molecules
  • Splicing life: technological revolution or Pandora's box?
  • The book of life: the Human Genome Project
  • Laboratory babies: new biology, old morality
  • The Warnock report
  • The Human Genome Diversity Project
  • The HGDP debate
  • Stem-cell research
  • A major decision
  • Reproductive cloning
  • Cloning a human.

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