The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project

Kevles, Daniel J., and Hood, LeRoy, eds

ISBN 10: 0674136454 / ISBN 13: 9780674136458

Editore: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992

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397, illus., notes, selected bibliography, glossary, index, small crease in rear DJ. This collection includes a fascinating essay by James D. Watson, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the discovery of the structure of DNA. The ultimate goal of the pioneering project outlined in this book is to map our genome--the key to what makes us human--in detail. The Code of Codes is a collective exploration of the substance and possible consequences of this project in relation to ethics, law, and society. Codice articolo 43156

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Titolo: The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social ...

Casa editrice: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

Data di pubblicazione: 1992

Legatura: Rilegato

Condizione: very good, very good

Edizione: First Edition. First Printing.

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Fourteen contributions (seven based on lectures delivered at Caltech 1989-1990) provide a historical introduction to the project's technical, social, and political background and explore the substance and implications of the project in relation both to genetics, technology, and medicine, and to ethics, law, and society. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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