Are Genes Us?

by Carl F. Cranor

Do our genes make us human? More than a billion dollars are being spent on the Human Genome Project to map the genes on human DNA. Along with the hope of controlling many terrible diseases, the project offers the threat of changing the behavior and the qualities that define us as human. The essays in this volume argue that, to predict the social, political, and ethical consequences of the new genetics, we dare not take even the science for granted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813521246
• ISBN13: 9780813521244
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"