Genes and human self-knowledge: historical and philosophical by Robert F. Weir, Susan C. Lawrence, Evan Fales

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The Possible Uses and Abuses of Genetic Knowledge Is Human Genetics Disguised Eugenics? Diane B. Paul 67 Molecular Biology: How Can We Translate the Laboratory? Joseph D. McInerney 84 Communicating Genetics: Journalists' Role in Helping the Public Understand Genetics Larry Thompson 104 Genetic Discrimination: The Use of Genetically Based Diagnostic and Prognostic Tests by Employers and Insurers Larry Gostin 122 Human Capital and the Discourse of Control: Comment on Paul Mitchell G. Ash 164 Commentary on Paul Alan I.

Mastromauro, W. J. Koroshetz, K. W. Klinger, L. A. Farrar, R. A. Watkins, J. F. Gusella, E. D. Bird, and J. B. Martin, "Predictive Testing for Huntington's Disease with Use of a Linked DNA Marker," New England Journal of Medicine 318 (1988): 535-542. 7. K. A. Quaid, unpublished data from a survey of 23 testing centers in the United States, 1992. 8. Ibid. Page 17 9. R. Stern and R. Eldridge, "Attitudes of Patients and Their Relatives to Huntington's Disease," American Journal Med. Genetics 12 (1975): 217-223.

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