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Heredity and hope : the case for genetic screening / Ruth Schwartz Cowan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genetic screening--History.
- Genetic screening.
- Eugenics--History.
- Eugenics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Neither minimizing the difficulty of the choices that modern genetics has created for us nor fearing them, Cowan argues that we can improve the quality of our own lives and the lives of our children by using the modern science and technology of genetic screening responsibly.
- Contents:
- Beautiful inheritance : the many faces of eugenics
- A genealogical fallacy : the many faces of genetics
- The patient greatly wants to have children : the pronatalism of prenatal diagnosis
- No matter what! This has to stop! : communities that have accepted genetic screening
- Genetics and genocide : African American communities and sickle cell disease
- We have a very pragmatic church : mandating genetic screening on Cyprus.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674029927
- 0674029925
- OCLC:
- 646811769
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