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The gene machine : how genetic technologies are changing the way we have kids--and the kids we have

text The gene machine : how genetic technologies are changing the way we have kids--and the kids we have

Summary
"A researched exploration of the promises and vulnerabilities of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventions considers key scientific, technological and political factors while sharing the stories of men and women struggling to un... Read more
Contents
How the Jews beat Tay-Sachs (carrier screening) -- Rewriting a family's history of cancer (preimplantation diagnosis) -- The other scarlet A (abortion) -- Silencing a gene (the future of Down syndrome) -- What do parents want to know? (variants of... Read more
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272 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 616 ROC in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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