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Future Perfect
Lori B. Andrews
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Description for Future Perfect
Paperback. Andrews offers a new plan for making decisions as individuals and as a society based on emerging issues of ethics and science by providing the first detailed glimpse into how genetic testing can change your self-image, your relationships with loved ones, and your expectations about your children. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: PDR; PSAD; PSAK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 185 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
Genetic technologies have moved off the pages of science fiction and into our everyday lives. Internists now offer genetic testing for cancers and early coronary disease. Obstetricians make genetic predictions during pregnancy about a baby's future health. Even dentists are getting into the act, offering testing for a genetic propensity to peridontal disease. In this pathbreaking book, Lori Andrews provides the first detailed glimpse into how genetic testing can change your self-image, your relationships with loved ones, and your expectations about your children. She documents how ill prepared doctors are to deal with complex genetic issues. Andrews also uncovers the ... Read more
Genetic technologies have moved off the pages of science fiction and into our everyday lives. Internists now offer genetic testing for cancers and early coronary disease. Obstetricians make genetic predictions during pregnancy about a baby's future health. Even dentists are getting into the act, offering testing for a genetic propensity to peridontal disease. In this pathbreaking book, Lori Andrews provides the first detailed glimpse into how genetic testing can change your self-image, your relationships with loved ones, and your expectations about your children. She documents how ill prepared doctors are to deal with complex genetic issues. Andrews also uncovers the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231121637
SKU
V9780231121637
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Lori B. Andrews
Lori Andrews has been an adviser on genetic and reproductive technology to Congress, the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and several foreign nations including the emirate of Dubai and the French National Assembly. She is ... Read more
Reviews for Future Perfect
Andrews urges us to face the psychological havoc already being wrought us as, with a few probes into our DNA, a doctor can tell us what genetic diseases may lie in store for us, our families and our fetuses. Chicago Tribune Compelling reading... very useful... intriguing. American Scientist Biotechnology expert Andrews clearly establishes that genetics will change all of our ... Read more