In Heredity and Hope, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, professor of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, has written an informative and readable history of genetic screening. She walks the reader through the complex and sometimes controversial practices that have created the new field of genetic medicine. As for the claim in the subtitle, The Case for Genetic (...)
November 07, 2008
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Paved with Good Intentions
Heredity and HopeThe Case for Genetic ScreeningRuth Schwartz CowanHarvard University Press, $27.95, 304 pp.
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