TY  - GEN
N2  - "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"--
AB  - "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"--
T1  - The science of human perfectionhow genes became the heart of American medicine /
DA  - c2012.
CY  - New Haven :
AU  - Comfort, Nathaniel C.
CN  - Ebrary
CN  - RB155
PB  - Yale University Press,
PP  - New Haven :
PY  - c2012.
ID  - 694504
KW  - Medical genetics
KW  - Eugenics
KW  - Heredity
SN  - 9780300188875
TI  - The science of human perfectionhow genes became the heart of American medicine /
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