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Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine
M. Susan Lindee
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Description for Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine
Hardback. Lindee's pathbreaking study shows the interdependence of technical and social parameters in contemporary biomedicine. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8, 7 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Genetic research increasingly dominates medical thought and practice in the United States and in many other industrialized nations. Susan Lindee's original study explores the institutions, disciplines, and ideas that initiated the reconfiguration of genetic medicine from a marginal field in the mid-1950s to a core research frontier of biomedicine. Tracing the work of geneticists and other experts in identifying and classifying disease during the explosive period between 1950 and 1980, Lindee identifies the individual "moments of truth" that moved the field away from its eugenic past to the center of a new world view in which nearly all disease is ... Read more
Genetic research increasingly dominates medical thought and practice in the United States and in many other industrialized nations. Susan Lindee's original study explores the institutions, disciplines, and ideas that initiated the reconfiguration of genetic medicine from a marginal field in the mid-1950s to a core research frontier of biomedicine. Tracing the work of geneticists and other experts in identifying and classifying disease during the explosive period between 1950 and 1980, Lindee identifies the individual "moments of truth" that moved the field away from its eugenic past to the center of a new world view in which nearly all disease is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801881756
SKU
V9780801881756
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About M. Susan Lindee
Susan Lindee is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine
These fascinating, well-written stories portray what it is like to work in human or medical genetics, both in the clinic and as a researcher.
Uta Francke Nature 2006 As difficult as it is to pinpoint the key events in history, Lindee manages this well, singling out and humanising the most important events and players.
Lindsay Banham Lancet 2006 ... Read more
Uta Francke Nature 2006 As difficult as it is to pinpoint the key events in history, Lindee manages this well, singling out and humanising the most important events and players.
Lindsay Banham Lancet 2006 ... Read more