The science of human perfection [electronic resource] : how genes became the heart of American medicine / Nathaniel Comfort.

The science of human perfection [electronic resource] : how genes became the heart of American medicine / Nathaniel Comfort.

9780300188875 electronic book
0300169914
9780300169911

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012]

©2012

English

1 online resource (xvii, 316 pages) : illustrations

RB155 .C66 2012eb

616/.042

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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