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61. The Genetics and Molecular Biology of Neural Tumors by Avery A. Sandberg, John F. Stone | |
Paperback: 450
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(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description Collecting an extensive amount of information from thousands of publications by leading investigators in this rapidly developing field, this book provides a convenient and up-to-date one volume source for research in neural tumors of various cellular origins. With over 3,500 references, 110 figures and 120 tables, this volume gathers an astonishing body of knowledge regarding human neural tumors. This book is the first of its kind, encyclopedic and wide-ranging. |
62. Human Genetic Diversity: Functional Consequences for Health and Disease by Julian C. Knight | |
Paperback: 432
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(2009-10-04)
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63. Playing God?: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom by Ted Peters | |
Paperback: 218
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(1996-11-21)
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A Good Writer uses the Thought of Others |
64. Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate (Morality and Society Series) by John H. Evans | |
Paperback: 312
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(2002-02-01)
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65. Genetic Variation: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology) | |
Hardcover: 388
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(2010-09-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description With the continuing advances in sequencing technologies and the availability of thousands of distinct human genomes, we are fast approaching the day when "personal genomes" become a standard study measure and a routine component of personal health records. In Genetic Variation: Methods and Protocols, expert researchers address the rising importance of genome variation, both at the level of the individual and in population-based studies of disease, with a collection of detailed protocols reflecting the nature and impact of genetic variation on human phenotypes. The contributions cover a majority of the most important forms of genetic variation studied today, including single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), insertions/deletion (indels), copy number variation (CNVs), variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs), mitochondrial variation, mobile elements, and epigenetic variation. As a volume in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and notes on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Convenient and cutting-edge, Genetic Variation: Methods and Protocols aims to bring bench scientists, clinicians, and bioinformaticians together in order to aid progress toward a greater understanding of the full impact of variation on human health and disease. |
66. Human Cloning in the Media: From Science Fiction to Science Practice (Genetics and Society) by Joan Haran, Jenny Kitzinger, Maureen McNeil, Kate O'Riordan | |
Hardcover: 256
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(2007-12-07)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book examines the making of human cloning as an imaginary practice and scientific fact. It explores the controversies surrounding both ‘therapeutic cloning’ for stem cell research and ‘reproductive’ cloning. The authors analyse the cultural production of cloning, how practices and representations play out in the global arena, and its transformation from science fiction to science practice. Case studies are used to illustrate key fore grounded issues: Drawing together the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, with insights from media and cultural studies, this book offers a timely contribution to debates about the public communication of science and the status of scientific truth. This book will be a valuable companion to students on undergraduate courses in media studies, science communication, cultural studies, science and technology studies and sociology. |
67. Genetics of Original Sin: The Impact of Natural Selection on the Future of Humanity (An Editions Odile Jacob Book) by Christian de Duve, Neil Patterson | |
Hardcover: 256
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(2010-12-14)
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68. Debating Human Genetics: Contemporary Issues in Public Policy and Ethics (Genetics and Society) by Alexandra Plows | |
Hardcover: 248
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(2010-08-27)
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Editorial Review Product Description Debating Human Genetics is based on ethnographic research focusing primarily on the UK publics who are debating and engaging with human genetics, and related bio and techno-science. Drawing on recent interviews and data, collated in a range of public settings, it provides a unique overview of multiple publics as they ‘frame’ the stake of the debates in this emerging, complex and controversial arena. The book outlines key sites and applications of human genetics that have sparked public interest, such as biobanks, stem cells, genetic screening and genomics. It also addresses the ‘scientific contoversies’ that have made considerable impact in the public sphere – the UK police DNA database, gene patenting, ‘saviour siblings’, and human cloning. By grounding the concepts and issues of human genetics in the real life narratives and actions of patient groups, genetic watchdogs, scientists, policy makers, and many other public groups, the book exemplifies how human genetics is a site where public knowledge and value claims converge and collide, and identifies the emergence of ‘hybrid publics’ who are engaging with this hybrid science. |
69. Principles of Clinical Cancer Genetics: A Handbook from the Massachusetts General Hospital | |
Hardcover: 227
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(2010-05-14)
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Editorial Review Product Description Advances in genetics are transforming estimates of an individual’s risk of developing cancer and approaches to prevention and management of cancer in those who may have increased susceptibility. Identifying and caring for patients with hereditary cancer syndromes and their family members present a complex clinical, scientific and social challenge. This textbook, by leading experts at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, highlights the current understanding of the genetics of hereditary cancers of the breast, ovary, colorectum, stomach, pancreas, kidney, skin, and endocrine organs. Practical guidelines for the use of genetic testing, cancer screening and surveillance, prophylactic surgery, and promising targeted therapeutic agents are discussed. In addition, ongoing research involving genome-wide screens to identify novel modest risk-associated genetic loci are explored, along with new approaches to the application of genetic markers in guiding therapeutic options. |
70. Ethical Issues of Human Genetic Databases (Medical Law and Ethics) by Bernice Elger | |
Hardcover: 332
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(2010-07-01)
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71. APPLIED GENETICS OF HUMANS, ANIMALS, PLANTS AND FUNGI, THE (2ND EDITION) by Bernard C. Lamb | |
Hardcover: 644
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(2006-12-28)
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72. Outlines & Highlights for Human Genetics and Society by Ronnee Yashon, ISBN: 9780495114253 by Cram101 Textbook Reviews | |
Paperback: 64
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(2009-12-29)
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73. Transcription Factors (Human Molecular Genetics) | |
Paperback: 320
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(2000-12-27)
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74. Anthropology and the New Genetics (New Departures in Anthropology) by Gísli Pálsson | |
Paperback: 280
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(2007-08-27)
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Birthmarks and Other Metaphors |
75. Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben | |
Paperback: 288
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(2004-02-01)
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Interesting and provocative, but not entirely successful
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A naturist's bias on germline genetic engineering
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76. The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs by John C. Avise | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2001-05-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description They mastermind our lives, shaping our features, our health, and our behavior, even in the sacrosanct realms of love and sex, religion, aging, and death. Yet we are the ones who house, perpetuate, and give the promise of immortality to these biological agents, our genetic gods. The link between genes and gods is hardly arbitrary, as the distinguished evolutionary geneticist John Avise reveals in this compelling book. In clear, straightforward terms, Avise reviews recent discoveries in molecular biology, evolutionary genetics, and human genetic engineering, and discusses the relevance of these findings to issues of ultimate concern traditionally reserved for mythology, theology, and religious faith. The book explains how the genetic gods figure in our development--not just our metabolism and physiology, but even our emotional disposition, personality, ethical leanings, and, indeed, religiosity. Yet genes are physical rather than metaphysical entities. Having arisen via an amoral evolutionary process--natural selection--genes have no consciousness, no sentient code of conduct, no reflective concern about the consequences of their actions. It is Avise's contention that current genetic knowledge can inform our attempts to answer typically religious questions--about origins, fate, and meaning. The Genetic Gods challenges us to make the necessary connection between what we know, what we believe, and what we embody. Customer Reviews (2)
Musings on Selfish Genes
Engaging exploration of genetics and attendant ethical issue The author is the distinguished Professor of Genetics at the University of Georgia and an evolutionary biologist who really knows his stuff."The genetic gods" in the title is a metaphor of course--he even refers jokingly to "protein angels" on page 208--his point being that we are to some very real extent at the whims of our genes, just as the Greeks once thought they were at the whims of the gods on Mount Olympus.However don't imagine that Avise is presenting a genetic-centered reductionist approach in this book.He wants to emphasize that the genes are subtly, and sometimes not so subtly,influencing our lives, but that is far from the whole story.Avise suggests that the proper way to look at the culture verses genes debate is to think of culture as an "epigenetic phenomenon...itself a product of biological evolution," and that "genes and culture coevolve" (pp. 158-159).The environment shapes us, but we in turn condition the environment.As Avise expresses it, "the individual's mind to a considerable extent creates itself through the environments it conditions" (p. 159).In our attempt to understand how the mind works and to account for human behavior, Avise's states that a "myopically reductionist approach that neglects multiple levels of biological, personal, and social causation" is inadequate, as are "uncritical holistic approaches alone" (p. 165). This just makes sense and it also makes moot the sometimes heated "culture verses genetics" debate, which is similar to the old "nature verses nurture" false dichotomy.Quite simply, how can we separate the effects and influence of the environment and culture from that of the genes, and vice versa? Professor Avise does not shy away from a position on whether we should intervene genetically when something is amiss.While some people believe that "developing embryos are governed by intelligent and caring supernatural forces," Avise insists that "they are governed by natural gene-environment interactions that unfortunately can" go horribly awry as in the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome or in Down's syndrome (p. 199).In such cases, he asks, "Should we then take the reins?"His careful answer on the next page is yes, but with the understanding that "the interests of the individuals most closely involved...should take legal precedence over those of more distant parties." Avise believes that ethical questions about genetic engineering should be considered by all members of society, not just scientists or theologians or lawyers (p. 202).He believes in a case-by-case appraisal (p. 201)."The only This book requires an effort on the part of the reader, there is no doubt about that.This is no breezy Time Magazine treatment.But I think what we can learn from Professor Avise on a topic of such overriding human interest is well worth the effort.
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77. Original Sin Explained?: Revelations from Human Genetic Science by Charles E. Warren | |
Paperback: 182
Pages
(2002-10)
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78. Responsible Genetics: The Moral Responsibility of Geneticists for the Consequences of Human Genetics Research (Philosophy and Medicine) by A. Nordgren | |
Paperback: 300
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book addresses well-known issues - the ethical, legal, and social implications of human genetics - but does so from an unusual perspective: the perspective of the scientific community itself. In distinction to what is common in the ELSI literature, the book also discusses bioethical method. A new kind of casuistry is developed on the basis of the empirical findings of cognitive semantics. It will be of interest to philosophers, bioethicists, geneticists, and policymakers. |
79. Genethics: The Clash between the New Genetics and Human Values by David Suzuki, Peter Knudtson | |
Paperback: 372
Pages
(1990-09-01)
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Woodenly Conventional The conclusions are painfully predictable: genetically modified foods might be dangerous to wild stocks, there is a moral gulf between somatic and germ-line gene therapy, cloning of humans is utterly immoral. Fewer knee-jerk emotional reactions and more critical thought on these topics - especially cloning - would be deeply appreciated by everyone. Many people are sick of hearing only one side of the issue presented as if the case is already closed. And the "Genethic Principle" paragraphs beginning each section make the book sound like a textbook, reinforcing the reader's conception that he is being instructed in something everyone already knows. IMHO, the "dangers" of these biotechnologies are significant and should be appreciated, but have been vastly inflated by sensationalist media, public paranoia, and a few ill-advised experiments. Cloning especially is the victim of sensationalization (if indeed that is a word), and the maxim "Never clone humans!" is widely taken as basically gospel. In fact, there is little scientific evidence that cloning would present much of the famed danger, and it certainly isn't the threat to individuality people like to claim it is (what about environmental differences? what about identical twins?) And no, cloning couldn't be used to make a slavishly obedient army of mini-Hitlers bent on world domination, either.Try Gregory Pence's "Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?" or any Richard Dawkins article on the subject.... ... Read more |
80. Genomic Diversity - Applications in Human Population Genetics by Surinder Singh Papiha, Ranajit Chakraborty, Ranjan Deka | |
Hardcover: 248
Pages
(1999-11-01)
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