Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine

by M. Susan Lindee

Book Overview

Genetic research increasingly dominates medical thought and practice in the United States and in many other industrialized nations. Susan Lindee's original study explores the institutions, disciplines, and ideas that initiated the reconfiguration of genetic medicine from a marginal field in the mid-1950s to a core research frontier of biomedicine.

Tracing the work of geneticists and other experts in identifying and classifying disease during...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801881757
• ISBN13: 9780801881756
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"