Controlling Our Destinies - Historical, Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on the Human Genome Project

This work considers the complex, far reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project - an international scientific enterprise aimed at attaining a complete sequence and locator map of the human genetic structure by the year 2005 - offering the elimination of genetic abnormalities and diseases.

Summary

This work considers the complex, far reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project - an international scientific enterprise aimed at attaining a complete sequence and locator map of the human genetic structure by the year 2005 - offering the elimination of genetic abnormalities and diseases.

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• Assisted by: Phillip R. Sloan (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9780268008208
• ISBN: 978-0-268-00820-8
• No. of pages: 568
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 812 g
• Series: Studies in Science and the Hum; Studies in Science & the Humanities from the Reilly Centre for Science, Technology & Values; Studies in Science & the Humanities from the Reilly Centre for Science, Technology & Values; Studies in Science and the Humanities from the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; Studies in Science and the Hum
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General