Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine

Name: Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine
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ISBN: 9780801891014

ISBN-10: 0801891019

ISBN-13: 9780801891014

Edition: 2005

Authors: M. Susan Lindee

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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 the explosive period between 1950 and 1980, Lindee identifies the individual "moments of truth" that moved the field away from its eugenic past to the center of a new world view in which nearly all disease is understood to be fundamentally genetic. She…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English