Genetic Maps And Human Imaginations

An expert in the field of social and biological ethics offers an analysis of the impact of scientists' ever-increasing knowledge of the genetic basis of life on family, society, and mortality.

The new genetics and race, illness, and procreation.

The title of this book derives from C. Wright Mills' classic The Sociological Imagination (Penguin, 1970), the chapters in this volume address these issues through discussions of choice and informed decision-making, risks and hazards, the economic and political organization of new technology, and the publics as well as the scientist's understanding of science.

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Human genome research will be one of the dominant themes of science in the 1990s. To assist its progress, new technologies and concepts are expected to emerge from the analysis of other organisms' genes and chromosomes. Comparative data on the genetic organization of different species, therefore, have particular importance. Since 1980, Genetic Maps has been the only comprehensive source of such information. This new, sixth edition is published in two formats: as a series of six paperback volumes, each containing a variety of genetic maps from one group of organisms, and as a cloth-bound, reading-room edition containing the complete collection of maps from all 129 species listed. Book 1 - Viruses Book 2 - Bacteria, Algae, and Protozoa Book 3 - Lower Eukaryotes Book 4 - Nonhuman Vertebrates Book 5 - The Human Maps Book 6 - Plants

A concise introduction to genetic linkage map construction for biological researchers, combining theory with practical exercises and problem-solving tips.

Recent history makes clear that the quantum leaps being made in technology are the leading edge of a groundswell of paradigm shifts taking place in science, politics, economics, social institutions, and the expression of cultural values. Indeed it is the simultaneity and interdependence of these changes occurring in every dimension of human experience and endeavor that makes the present so historically distinctive. The essays gathered here give voice to perspectives on the always improvised relationship between technology and cultural values from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific. Contributors: Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas, Roger T. Ames,Yoko Arisaka, Carl Becker, Francesca Bray, James Buchanan, Arindam Chakrabarti, Frank W. Derringh, Rolf Elberfeld, Charles Ess, Andrew Feenberg, Susantha Goonatilake, H. Jiuan Heng, Peter Hershock, Thomas P. Kasulis, George Khushf, David Farrell Krell, Joel J. Kupperman, William R. LaFleur, Lois Ann Lorentzen, David Loy, Joseph Margolis, Hans-Georg Möller, Robert Cummings Neville, Peimin Ni, Monica Atieno Opole, Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ, Helen Petrovsky, Ramon Sentmartí, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Vasanthi Srinivasan, Marietta Stepaniants, Vyacheslav S. Stiopin, Henk ten Have, Paul B.Thompson, Mary Tiles, David B.Wong.