Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Biotechnology in Our Lives: What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicine, and Much More

Biotechnology in Our Lives: What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicine, and Much More

Sheldon Krimsky
5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
For a quarter of a century, the Council for Responsible Genetics has provided a unique historical lens into the modern history, science, ethics, and politics of genetic technologies. Since 1983 the Council has had leading scientists, activists, science writers, and public health advocates researching and reporting on a broad spectrum of issues, including genetically engineered foods, biological weapons, genetic privacy and discrimination, reproductive technologies, and human cloning.

Biotechnology in Our Lives examines how these issues affect us daily whether we realize it or not. Written for the nonscientist, it looks at the many applications of genetics on the world around us by posing questions such as:


What should we know about genetics and childbirth?
Can our genes keep us from qualifying for health insurance?
Can gene therapy cure cancer?
Is behavior genetically determined?
Why would the FBI want our genes?
Are foreign genes in our food?
And much more

Ultimately, this definitive book on the subject also encourages us to think about the social, environmental, and moral ramifications of where this technology is taking us.
Language
English
Pages
494
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Skyhorse
Release
June 01, 2013
ISBN
162087573X
ISBN 13
9781620875735

Biotechnology in Our Lives: What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicine, and Much More

Sheldon Krimsky
5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
For a quarter of a century, the Council for Responsible Genetics has provided a unique historical lens into the modern history, science, ethics, and politics of genetic technologies. Since 1983 the Council has had leading scientists, activists, science writers, and public health advocates researching and reporting on a broad spectrum of issues, including genetically engineered foods, biological weapons, genetic privacy and discrimination, reproductive technologies, and human cloning.

Biotechnology in Our Lives examines how these issues affect us daily whether we realize it or not. Written for the nonscientist, it looks at the many applications of genetics on the world around us by posing questions such as:


What should we know about genetics and childbirth?
Can our genes keep us from qualifying for health insurance?
Can gene therapy cure cancer?
Is behavior genetically determined?
Why would the FBI want our genes?
Are foreign genes in our food?
And much more

Ultimately, this definitive book on the subject also encourages us to think about the social, environmental, and moral ramifications of where this technology is taking us.
Language
English
Pages
494
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Skyhorse
Release
June 01, 2013
ISBN
162087573X
ISBN 13
9781620875735

More books from Sheldon Krimsky

The GMO Deception: What You Need to Know about the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and Our Environment at Risk

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Stem Cell Dialogues

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Environmental Hazards: Communicating Risks as a Social Process

3/5 ( ratings)

Biotechnology in Our Lives: What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicine, and Much More

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Science, Policy, and Social Issues

1/5 ( ratings)

Biotechnology in Our Lives: What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicine, and Much More: What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicin...

1/5 ( ratings)

Stem Cell Dialogues: A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers by Sheldon Krimsky (2015-06-23)

1/5 ( ratings)

Social Theories of Risk

1/5 ( ratings)

Ancestry DNA Testing and Privacy: A Consumer Guide

1/5 ( ratings)

Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture

1/5 ( ratings)

Conflicts of Interest in Science: How Corporate-Funded Academic Research Can Threaten Public Health

1/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader