Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are

by Barbara Katz Rothman

Book Overview

Scientists are racing to unravel the code of life in our DNA sequences. But once we know the code, will we know what life means? Will we know what to do with the powerful -- healing, destructive, and marketable -- information we will have?

Barbara Katz Rothman's warm, learned, passionate, and humorous voice is just the one we need to guide us through some of the most loaded issues and technologies of our time -- ones that bear on the most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393350096
• ISBN13: 9780393350098
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

powerful critique of science of genetics

This book helps us better understand the limits of genetic research and testing, and the dangers of believing that this magic new bullet will solve a host of social and medical "problems". For women especially, this book is must reading.