The Practices of Human Genetics (Hardcover)

Preface. Introduction. Modern Biological Determinism: The Violence Initiative, The Human Genome Project, and the New Eugenics; G. Allen. Projecting Speed Genomics; M. Fortun. The Practices of Producing Meaning in Bioinformatics; J.H. Fujimura. Circulating Mice and Viruses: The Jackson Memorial Laboratory, the National Cancer Institute, and the Genetics of Breast Cancer, 1930-1965; J.-P. Gaudilliere. The Automated Laboratory: The Generation and Replication of Work in Molecular Genetics; P. Keating, et al. Hans Nachtsheim, A Human Geneticist under National Socialism and the Question of Freedom of Science; U. Deichmann. Good Genes and Bad Genes: DNA in Popular Culture; D. Nelkin, M.S. Lindee. Making Decisions about Someone Else's Offspring: Geneticists and Reproductive Technology; S. Novaes. PKU Screening: Competing Agendas, Convergning Stories; D. Paul. From Butterflies to Blood: Human Genetics in the U.K.; D.T. Zallen.