Genetic Imaginations : Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research (Hardcover)

Contents: Social dimensions of the Human Genome Mapping Project: an introduction; Transitional science and the Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre; How weak bonds stick? Genetic diagnosis between laboratory and clinic; Information technology as an instrument of genetics; Exploring organizational issues in British genomic research; Eugenics here and now; Moral and legal consequences for the fetus/unborn child of medical technologies derived from human genome research; The American gene therapy industry and the social shaping of a new technology; Social criticism and the human genome programme: some reflections on the limits of a limited social science; Signs of life - taking genetic literacy seriously.