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The meanings of the gene : public debates about human heredity / Celeste Michelle Condit.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rhetoric of the human sciencesPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xi, 325 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0299163644
  • 9780299163648
  • 0299163601
  • 9780299163600
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.5
LOC classification:
  • QH438.7. C65 1999
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. Classical Eugenics: 1900-1935 -- Ch. 1. Breeding the Human Stock -- Ch. 2. Challenges to Eugenics -- Pt. 2. Family Genetics: 1940-1954 -- Ch. 3. The Transformation to Genetics -- Ch. 4. The Family Gene -- Pt. 3. Genetic Experimentation: 1956-1976 -- Ch. 5. Recoding Humanity -- Ch. 6. Genetic Counseling -- Ch. 7. Ethical Challenges and Biohazards -- Pt. 4. Genetic Medicine and Beyond: 1980-1995 -- Ch. 8. Blueprints for Genetic Commerce -- Ch. 9. Toward a Personal Health Genetics -- Ch. 10. Ethical Challenges for Genetic Health -- Conclusions and Speculations -- Appendix I: Theory and Methodology -- Appendix 2: Quantitative Data -- Appendix 3: Coding Sheet and Instructions -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 304.5 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A197222B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-313) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. Classical Eugenics: 1900-1935 -- Ch. 1. Breeding the Human Stock -- Ch. 2. Challenges to Eugenics -- Pt. 2. Family Genetics: 1940-1954 -- Ch. 3. The Transformation to Genetics -- Ch. 4. The Family Gene -- Pt. 3. Genetic Experimentation: 1956-1976 -- Ch. 5. Recoding Humanity -- Ch. 6. Genetic Counseling -- Ch. 7. Ethical Challenges and Biohazards -- Pt. 4. Genetic Medicine and Beyond: 1980-1995 -- Ch. 8. Blueprints for Genetic Commerce -- Ch. 9. Toward a Personal Health Genetics -- Ch. 10. Ethical Challenges for Genetic Health -- Conclusions and Speculations -- Appendix I: Theory and Methodology -- Appendix 2: Quantitative Data -- Appendix 3: Coding Sheet and Instructions -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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