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The science of human perfection: how genes became the heart of american medicine [Libro electrónico] / Nathaniel C. Comfort

Por: Comfort, Nathaniel C [autor/a].
Tipo de material: Libro en línea Libro en línea Editor: New Haven: Yale University Press, c2012Descripción: xvii, 316 páginas : ilustraciones ; 25 centímetros.Tipo de contenido: Texto Tipo de medio: Computadora Tipo de portador: Recurso en líneaISBN: 9780300169911; 9780300188875.Tema(s): Genetics, Medical -- history -- United States | Eugenics -- history -- United States | Herencia -- genetics -- United States | History, 20th Century -- United States | History, 21st Century -- United StatesNota de acceso: Disponible para usuarios de ECOSUR con su clave de acceso Nota de bibliografía: Incluye bibliografía e índice: páginas 269-298 Número de sistema: 54808Contenidos:Mostrar Resumen:
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Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a century ago eugenicists were making the same promises.The Science of Human Perfectiontraces the history of the promises of medical genetics and of the medical dimension of eugenics. The book also considers social and ethical issues that cast troublesome shadows over these fields. Keeping his focus on America, science historian Nathaniel Comfort introduces the community of scientists, physicians, and public health workers who have contributed to the development of medical genetics from the nineteenth century to today. He argues that medical genetics is closely related to eugenics, and indeed the two cannot be fully understood separately. He also carefully examines how the desire to relieve suffering and to improve ourselves genetically, though noble, may be subverted. History makes clear that as patients and consumers we must take ownership of genetic medicine, using it intelligently, knowledgeably, and skeptically, lest pernicious interests trump our own.

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Incluye bibliografía e índice: páginas 269-298

The Galton-Garrod society.. Fisher's quest.. A germ theory of genes.. The heredity clinics.. How the geneticists learned to start worrying and love mutation.. Getting their organ.. Genetics without sex

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Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a century ago eugenicists were making the same promises.The Science of Human Perfectiontraces the history of the promises of medical genetics and of the medical dimension of eugenics. The book also considers social and ethical issues that cast troublesome shadows over these fields. Keeping his focus on America, science historian Nathaniel Comfort introduces the community of scientists, physicians, and public health workers who have contributed to the development of medical genetics from the nineteenth century to today. He argues that medical genetics is closely related to eugenics, and indeed the two cannot be fully understood separately. He also carefully examines how the desire to relieve suffering and to improve ourselves genetically, though noble, may be subverted. History makes clear that as patients and consumers we must take ownership of genetic medicine, using it intelligently, knowledgeably, and skeptically, lest pernicious interests trump our own. eng

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