...Ellen Wright Clayton Stephen G. Post and Peter J. Whitehouse, eds. Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease: Ethical and Clinical Issues . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 512 pp. $45.00 cloth. Task Force on Genetic Testing, NIH-DOE Working Group on Ethical, Legal...

...Marshall B. Kapp Robert H. Blank, The Political Implications of Human Genetic Technology (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1981), 255 pp., $26.50 hardbound Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982...

...Robin Gregg Charles L. Bosk. All God's Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992. 183 pp., plus references and index. $24.95 cloth. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993...

...John H. Evans Reproductive genetic technologies are becoming more controversial as they become more ubiquitous. The opponents of these technologies are largely religious groups, a fact that leads to the question of why religious groups would be more opposed to these technologies than others. Since...

... , David , and Peter Knudtson. 1990 . Genethics: The Clash between the New Genetics and Human Values. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Wills , Christopher . 1991 . Exons, Introns, and Talking Genes: The Science behind the Human Genome Project. New York: Basic Books Copyright © 1995...

...Nancy Press Kaja Finkler. Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,2000. 296 pp. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books...

...Vence L. Bonham; Toby Citrin; Stephen M. Modell; Tené Hamilton Franklin; Esther W. B. Bleicher; Leonard M. Fleck Engaging communities of color in the genetics public policy conversation is important for the translation of genetics research into strategies aimed at improving the health of all...

... people are genetically predisposed to living near pollu- tion. Here intergenerational effects are neither racialized nor geneticized. To study race as a strictly synchronic variable seems counterintuitive because we are so accustomed to believing in a genetic basis for this clas- sification...

... of the media's presentation of the causes of type 2 diabetes and its implicit racial associations on attitudes toward people with diabetes and preferences toward research spending. Survey participants who viewed an article on genetic causation or social determinants of diabetes were more likely to support...

...Avram Denburg Abstract Umbilical cord blood is a rich source of blood stem cells, which are of critical clinical importance in the treatment of a variety of malignant and genetic conditions requiring stem cell transplantation. Many countries have established national public cord blood banks...

... Academy of Pediatrics Bright Futures Project, and classification as a preventive service for women by the Institute of Medicine. There are valid arguments against the expansion of this technology, including inadequate national and state laws prohibiting genetic discrimination, informed consent limitations...

... weight is under personal control and that people have a moral and medical responsibility to manage their weight. Both groups sometimes frame obesity as an illness, which limits blame by suggesting that weight is biologically or genetically determined but simultaneously stigmatizes fat bodies as diseased...

... with obesity, express relatively low support for obesity-targeted policies, and still view obesity as resulting from individual failure rather than environmental or genetic sources. Given the absence of elite discourse on this problem, we also find that typical determinants of policy preferences...

... ethical, philosophical, and practical understanding of the issues related to the use of genetic technologies in the human medical field. Each of these books sees these issues from different perspectives and provides different understandings of the issues through a distinct process of analysis. While...

... story of politicized scientists and ordinary people working together. Sylvia N. Tesh, University of Michigan Troy Duster. Backdoor to Eugenics. New York and London: Routledge, 1990. 201 pp. $13.95 paper. Genetics is one of the hottest frontiers of medicine...

... of employing research procedures that pose potential risks and of seeking knowledge with pos- sibly harmful applications. “Once the genie is out of the bottle, who can control its applications?” Since that meeting, the applications of scientific advances in genetics-to ag- riculture, animal...

... as disease-causing even though they rarely or never cause disease (Biesecker 2012 ). Others have noted that “the associations between genotypes detected by genetic tests and phenotypes related with disease are frequently weak and potentially overestimated” (Rogowski et al. 2010 ). For instance, early...

.... In Plays, Prose, and Poems , by Oscar Wilde. New York:Alfred A. Knopf. JHPPL 26.2-16 Books 3/22/01 4:02 PM Page 457 Books Review Essay Genetic Testing Is Different...

...Robert Zussman JHPPL 26.2-16 Books 3/22/01 4:02 PM Page 457 Books Review Essay Genetic Testing Is Different Stephen G. Post and Peter J. Whitehouse, eds...

... 2001 JHPPL 26.2-16 Books 3/22/01 4:02 PM Page 457 Books Review Essay Genetic Testing Is Different Stephen G. Post and Peter J. Whitehouse, eds...