@article{694504,
      recid = {694504},
      author = {Comfort, Nathaniel C.},
      title = {The science of human perfection how genes became the heart  of American medicine / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Yale University Press,},
      address = {New Haven :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 316 p.) :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Keeping his focus on America, 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 that 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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/694504},
}