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Completion of the Human Genome Project is just the tip of the iceberg in our understanding of human genetics. How can information gathered during the Human Genome Project be used? This brief booklet explains in accessible language what readers need to understand about the Human Genome Project, including the background, findings, and social and ethical implications. The author, Michael Palladino, also includes relevant Web resources and exercises for readers. ... Read more

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Pretty good.
Outdated in 2006 but worthy enough for a good read. Short, simple, and very informative. ... Read more

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The human genome is the key to what makes us human. Composed of the many different genes found in our cells, it defines our possibilities and limitations as members of the species. The ultimate goal of the pioneering project outlined in this book is to map our genome in detail -- an achievement that will revolutionize our understanding of human development and the expression of both our normal traits and our abnormal characteristics, such as disease. The Code of Codes is a collective exploration of the substance and possible consequences of this project in relation to ethics, law, and society as well as to science, technology, and medicine.

The many debates on the human genome project are prompted in part by its extraordinary cost, which has raised questions about whether it represents the invasion of biology by the kind of Big Science symbolized by highenergy accelerators. While addressing these matters, this book recognizes that far more than money is at stake. Its intent is not to advance naive paeans for the project but to stimulate thought about the serious issues--scientific, social, and ethical--that it provokes. The Code of Codes comprises incisive essays by stellar figures in a variety of fields, including James D. Watson and Walter Gilbert and the social analysts of science Dorothy Nelkin and Evelyn Fox Keller. An authoritative review of the scientific underpinnings of the project is provided by Horace Freeland Judson, author of the bestselling Eighth Day of Creation.

The book's broad and balanced coverage and the expertise of its contributors make TheCode of Codes the most comprehensive and compelling exploration available on this historymaking project.

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The project to map the human genetic codes has been widely hailed as a monumental achievement with vast medical promise. Yet the project is also fraught with ambiguities and, Susan Thistlethwaite claims, great potential dangers to society. This important book combines a basic primer on genetic research with ethical reflection by an interdisciplinary team on key questions and a deeper look, in light of such research, at what it means to be human.

Part 1 of the book places genetic research in historical perspective, including the historical prickliness between science and religion. It shows how we have gotten from Gregor Mendel's experiments with peas to today's Human Genome Project. Part 2 explores ethical issues posed by genetic testing, screening, and counseling; gene therapy; stem-cell research; dangers of misuse through genetic identification; and engineering of particular populations (violent people, ethnic groups, gays and lesbians). Part 3 explores the possibilities of reconstruing human identity for the coming "biological age." Contributors include Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Laurel Schneider, Lainie Ross, Theodore W. Jennings Jr., Ken Stone, and Lee Butler. ... Read more

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This book deals with the rapid changes in contemporary molecular biology, particularly genome sciences, and the manner in which they can be understood through the lens of political economy. Specifically, the work investigates the case of the United States-led Human Genome Project (HGP), in order to show that even large-scale basic science is closely bound up in the progression of capitalist social relations.The work has, in part, been motivated by the lack of rigorous analysis of the HGP.Most of the existing literature tends to present either a chronological review of events surrounding the HGP or describe it thematically.In contrast, this book contributes to a needed discussion concerning the `why and how' of the HGP's emergence.It elucidates the features within capitalist social relations which have simultaneously enabled the HGP and ensured its amenability to systemic demands.The work's most compelling elements are both historical and analytical.Historically, it places the HGP within the context of wider political, economic and social issues.Related to this, it puts forward an analytical, explanatory understanding of the project's emergence, making it a valuable tool for both political economists, science & society theorists, and even bioethicists. ... Read more

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The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to obtain such information? What will be the consequences for health care, health insurance, employability, and research priorities? And, more broadly, how will attitudes toward human differences be affected, morally and socially, by the setting of a genetic "standard"?
The compatibility of individual rights and genetic fairness is challenged by the technological possibilities of the future, making it difficult to create an agenda for a "just genetics." Beginning with an account of the utopian dreams and authoritarian tendencies of historical eugenics movements, this book's nine essays probe the potential social uses and abuses of detailed genetic information. Lucid and wide-ranging, these contributions will provoke discussion among bioethicists, legal scholars, and policy makers. ... Read more

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A giant step for medicine or the most serious threat to personal freedom yet? A cure for cancer or an invitation to genetic discrimination and the search for a master race? Here, not a minute too soon, is a behind-the-scenes account of the Human Genome Project, the most ethically and politically complex scientific undertaking of this generation. Dubbed the ``Holy Grail of Biology,'' the Genome Project will occupy over the next five to 15 years a majority of the best public and private labs and cost more than the GNP of many nations. This book separates fact from fiction, identifies the real moral issues in the debate, and captures the drama--as well as the intrigue and infighting--that has riveted the scientific establishment throughout. ... Read more

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A good book to start understanding eugenics
Cracking the Code Within Us by Elizabeth L. Marshall, details of the Project are discussed in a clear and rational manner, devoid of the scare tactics by those who oppose genetics. She explains some of the geneticdiseases that can be cured and points out that the Project could eventuallylead to discovering the genetic errors responsible for more than 4,000inherited diseases. She also assures us that intelligence is a combinationof many complex genes, and we should not be looking for a cure forstupidity or a magic bullet for genius. Genetic intelligence can only beincreased for the near future by good breeding. She does answer thequestion about the number of girl babies not born in China due to sexselection: an estimated 1.7 million a year in a population of 1 billion.This explains why Rothblatt didn't want to give an exact number. With aslightly over-representation of females born to males born naturally, thereare already many more females and 1.7 million less in this large apopulation can only help to give women more value in the future. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on March 1, 2001. The length of the article is 607 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Gene-Poor Vermin: Humanity's New Place in Nature.(results of the Human Genome Project found disappointing)
Author: Eric T. Juengst
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2001
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: 31Issue: 2Page: 7

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This digital document is an article from Issues in Law & Medicine, published by National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. on September 22, 1998. The length of the article is 7223 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Geneticizing disability: the Human Genome Project and the commodification of self.
Author: Jennifer Fitzgerald
Publication: Issues in Law & Medicine (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1998
Publisher: National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.
Volume: 14Issue: 2Page: 147

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This digital document is an article from Synthesis/Regeneration, published by WD Press on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1011 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Run from the Genome. (Biodevastation).(ethical issues surrounding human genome project)(Brief Article)
Author: David I. Sheidlower
Publication: Synthesis/Regeneration (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: WD Press
Page: 31(2)

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This unique book provides a basic introduction to the ideas underlying classical and molecular genetics and then describes the purpose of the Human Genome Project, its approach, its triumphs, its technological piffalls, and its ultimate implications for society. ... Read more

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Cut the nonsense
Rather than say that the human genome project raises "challenging issues" or "unique problems", let's tell it like it is: The human genome project is going to destroy mankind. The same scientists that brought us weaponized anthrax (and some loony scientist is running loose right now with it),biological warfare (who are these scientists and how do they sleep at night?) cannot guarantee us any safeguards on the way that the genome project info will be used. They don't care. they are too busy patenting their findings so they can become billionaires. This is the beginning of the end and it is already too late to keep people from breeding humans like cattle and altering them so that they can become anything from ferocious soldiers to passiver, non-complaining worker bees. Thank, Mr. Wizard.

An invaluable, benchmark publication.
The Human Genome Project will complete mapping the human genetic structure in just another four or five years and constitutes the single largest project ever undertaken in the life sciences. It will help to pinpoint thegenetic basis of virtually any human trait or frailty. It offers thepossibility for medical interventions for virtually all diseases anddisabilities related to genetic processes. Controlling Our Destinies:Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, And Theological Perspectives On TheHuman Genome Project surveys and analyses the complex, far-reaching issuesand values surrounding the Human Genome Project including new forms ofpositive "eugenics", and the challenge of the project fortheological perspectives on human life. Controlling Our Destinies is aninterdisciplinary assemblage of humanistic scholars that will prove aninvaluable, benchmark publication for both humanists and scientists fordiscussions of the religious, ethical, and moral considerations attendantto such a radical advance in human control over human biology.

Recommended reading for students of genetics & society.
The Human Genome Project seeks to pinpoint the genetic basis of virtually any human trait, but it also offers ethical and theological issues which will change human perspective and meaning. Contributors discuss the project's background, issues, and impact with an eye to revealing the manyunderlying social changes which will occur as a result of the project. ... Read more

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Clear introduction to a difficult subject
Toriello's introduction to the human genome project is a good source for middle school science students.It offers a brief history of genetics, information about the project's goals and accomplishments to date, and explanations of how genetic testing and therapy are currently being used. It also raises some ethical questions which put it, if one is realistic, beyond elementary readers, but which might lead to discussions with adolescent audiences.
(Please note: The "baby-preschool" reading level must be based on the size of the font.If you look at the vocabulary and content, it's an absurd designation.) ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on July 1, 1992. The length of the article is 1671 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Human Genome Project. (book reviews)
Author: Dorothy Nelkin
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1992
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v22Issue: n4Page: p38(2)

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This digital document is an article from Human Biology, published by Wayne State University Press on December 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1911 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: KEY WORDS: HUMAN GENOME PROJECT, ANTHROPOLOGICAL GENETICS, HUMAN BIOLOGY JOURNAL, EDITORIAL.

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Title: The Human Genome Project and advances in anthropological genetics.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Author: Sarah Williams-Blangero
Publication: Human Biology (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2004
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Volume: 76Issue: 6Page: 801(4)

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The U.S. & other countries have embarked on a 15-year, $3 billion initiative to map & sequence the human genetic blueprint, or genome. The U.S. Congress has appropriated nearly $1 billion for this project. The expectation is that results of genome research will yield commercially value products of benefit to human health. This report analyzes universities', companies', & researchers' experiences & perspectives since enactment of federal laws to enhance technology transfer -- especially as it pertains to research funded by the NIH & the Energy Dept. ... Read more